Contributions of the Social Sciences to the Solution of Health Problems

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RELATIONS between medicine and the social sciences, long a field for interesting discussion, have been explored intensively from both sides of the fence in recent years. It is convenient arbitrarily to separate the natural sciences, such as chemistry, physics and biology, from the social sciences, including sociology, social anthropology and social and personality psychology. Psychology, usually grouped under the social sciences, is sometimes considered a natural science. Strictly speaking, mathematics falls into neither group but is used by both. Probably many physicians practicing today have had relatively little contact with the social sciences in their premedical education. It is comparatively . . .

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