Origins and canons: Medicine and the history of sociology

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 86-108

  Collyer, Fran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Founders of sociology; History; Medical sociology; Medicalization; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; MORTALITY; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOLOGY;

HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MORTALITY; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 77951637364     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: 1461720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695110361834     Document Type: Article

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