METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL HYGIENE

Author: Veselin Borissov.

The monograph aim is to contribute the satisfaction of social hygiene science need for self-knowledge, for methodological reflection. By means of a generalized theoretical analysis the author grounds an original conception both for the systematic integrative character of social hygiene knowledge and its future development tendencies. The increasing methodological function of social hygiene thinking style is being shown.

A lot of discussion problems are being considered in the monograph. The contemporary social hygiene is a very interesting unique scientific phenomenon, which is difficult to be put into the traditional ideas and designs for medical science disciplinary organization. The wide spreading social hygiene object scope troubles with its synonymous definition and differentiation from other scientific disciplines. For that reason the author uses the concepts terminal object /object-aim/ and instrumental object /object-source/ of social hygiene science. Special attention is being paid to the tendency of social hygiene passage in socialhygiene interdisciplinary scientific complex and a plan for classification of the complex is being worked out.

CONTENTS

1. Coordination of socialhygiene science

1.1 Development and tendencies of disciplinary foundation in social hygiene

1.1.1 Contemporary status of social hygiene – emergence from scientific conglomerat to scientific system.

1.2 Object and objective contents of social hygiene.

1.3 Specifics and structure of the objective domain in social hygiene.

1.3.1. Definition of public health.

1.3.2. Conceptual model of public health.

1.3.3. Typology of public health phenomena.

1.4. Style of life as an object of social hygiene knowledge.

1.5. Methods and methodics of social hygiene. Adequacy of using methods.

1.5.1. Tendencies of methodic approaches in social hygiene.

1.5.2. Typology of socialhygiene methods.

1.5.3. Mathematization of social hygiene.

1.6. Problems of institutionalization of social hygiene.

1.6.1. Citation and contracitation in socialhygiene literature.

1.7. Ideological aspects of social hygiene.

2. Horizons of socialhygiene science.

2.1. Factors and criteria of differentiation in social hygiene.

2.1.1. Tendencies for theoretical foundations of social hygiene as independent scientific discipline.

2.2. Socialhygiene knowledge as integrative scientific phenomenon.

2.2.1. Interrelations of social hygiene.

2.2.2. Definition of socialhygiene complex.

2.2.3. Classification of socialhygiene comlex.

2.2.4. Socialhygiene style of thinking.

2.3. Social hygiene and general theory of public health.

3. Conclusion