Historical perspectives on the development of health systems modeling in medical anthropology

Susan S. Hunter

Social Science & Medicine, 1985, vol. 21, issue 12, 1297-1307

Abstract: The call for macro health systems models which emerged in medical anthropology in the mid-1970s from the field's most respected thinkers has a deep theoretical history and can also be related to theoretical developments in sociology, clinical medicine and international public health. The trends leading to a recognition of the need for modeling by medical anthropologists have been the source of some of medical anthropology's limitations and weaknesses as well, especially the failure to fulfill the field's promise as a biocultural bridge for the parent discipline.

Date: 1985
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(85)90432-0
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:21:y:1985:i:12:p:1297-1307

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
http://www.elsevier. ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

Access Statistics for this article

Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().