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Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity
Roy Bhaskar
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Description for Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity
Paperback. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to health. It considering what the authors call the 'seven enigmas' facing the health practitioner, namely the enigmas of diagnosis; symptomology; causation; healing; prevention; intervention/treatment/therapy and finally rehabilitation. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
In this book, the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional practice. In so doing they make it possible for practitioners of the different disciplines to communicate without contradiction or compromise, resolving the tensions that beset much interdisciplinary work. Such a general theory is only possible if we assume that there is more to being (ontology) than empirical being (what we can measure directly). Therefore, the unique approach to interdisciplinarity applied in this book starts from ontology, namely that there is a multimechanismicity (a multiplicity of ... Read more
In this book, the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional practice. In so doing they make it possible for practitioners of the different disciplines to communicate without contradiction or compromise, resolving the tensions that beset much interdisciplinary work. Such a general theory is only possible if we assume that there is more to being (ontology) than empirical being (what we can measure directly). Therefore, the unique approach to interdisciplinarity applied in this book starts from ontology, namely that there is a multimechanismicity (a multiplicity of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415496667
SKU
V9780415496667
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99-3
About Roy Bhaskar
Roy Bhaskar was the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science (1975); The Possibility of Naturalism (1979); Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (1986); Reclaiming Reality (1989); Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom (1991); Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (1993); Reflections on Meta-Reality (2002); and From ... Read more
Reviews for Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity
This book is the definitive critical realist account, in accessible prose, of what science must do to maximize its understanding of the world, and in particular human wellbeing and flourishing. Mervyn Hartwig, editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism