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dc.contributor.authorReid, Benet
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-27T23:33:57Z
dc.date.available2018-03-27T23:33:57Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.identifier.citationReid , B 2017 , ' Avoiding philosophy as a trump-card in sociological writing. A study from the discourse of evidence-based healthcare ' , Social Theory and Health , vol. 15 , no. 4 , pp. 369-387 . https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-017-0033-6en
dc.identifier.issn1477-8211
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 249566570
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 8ac47a2c-3040-4391-8864-6d8dadff6d70
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85016099260
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000415972800001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/13035
dc.description.abstractIn this article I explore a situation where health sociologists encounter pure-philosophical reasoning in the fabric of social life. Accounts of the relationship between philosophy and sociology tend to be framed in abstract theory, so there is a need for practical ways to anchor philosophical reasoning in sociological writing. I consider the use of philosophies as strategic tools for socially grounded understanding, rather than rhetorical trump-cards which bypass socio-political questions. I present my understanding in two stages: first, I discuss my example topic of Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC), reviewing some philosophical contributions by writers in that discourse. These niche-writings I contextualise briefly in relation to other academic meetings between philosophy and sociology. Second, I offer three philosophical perspectives on the topic of EBHC, and outline their significance for understanding it sociologically. I conclude that to navigate the difficult ground where philosophy and sociology meet, sociologists can entrain pure-philosophical argumentation to the purpose of critical, socially situated understandings.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Theory and Healthen
dc.rights© Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2017. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-017-0033-6en
dc.subjectEBHCen
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.subjectPhilosophyen
dc.subjectSocial theoryen
dc.subjectTheoretical methodsen
dc.subjectH Social Sciences (General)en
dc.subjectHM Sociologyen
dc.subjectRA Public aspects of medicineen
dc.subjectHealth(social science)en
dc.subjectSociology and Political Scienceen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccH1en
dc.subject.lccHMen
dc.subject.lccRAen
dc.titleAvoiding philosophy as a trump-card in sociological writing. A study from the discourse of evidence-based healthcareen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-017-0033-6
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-03-27


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