Interdisciplinary promises versus practices in medicine: The decoupled experiences of social sciences and humanities scholars

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-25

  Albert, Mathieu ^a   Paradis, Elise ^a   Kuper, Ayelet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Canada; Decoupling; Humanities; Interdisciplinarity; Medicine; Research; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MEDICINE; RESEARCH METHOD;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANITIES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; SCHOLAR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; UNIVERSITY;

CANADA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84916895003     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.12.004     Document Type: Article

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