An epistemology for sustainability science: a proposal for the study of the health/disease phenomenon
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Document typeArticle
Defense date2009-02-01
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Abstract
Epistemological approaches in classical science were grounded on the explanatory needs of the phenomena of their historical
time. Nevertheless, our contemporary world shows challenging situations in which the explanatory models of normal sciences
have not proved effective. One of these fields is the area of health, in which the complexity of pathological phenomena
continuously overwhelms the capacity of the classical models of biomedical research to provide effective answers regarding
their comprehension, prevention and control. In the last decade a new science of sustainability has emerged, grounded in
general systems theory and the conceptual basis of sustainable development. This area has become a scientific possibility for
transcending reductionist analyses of classical sciences, by means of systemic comprehension of contemporary phenomena
within the economic, social, environmental, political and ecological domains. However, the literature shows few specific
references to an epistemological approach that may establish the boundaries for a metatheoretical structure on which knowledge
can be generated in the framework of this emerging scientific discipline. This paper proposes an epistemological model
for analysis of the health–disease phenomenon from the point of view of sustainability science.
CitationRios, L.; Ortiz, M.; Alvarez, J. An epistemology for sustainability science: a proposal for the study of the health/disease phenomenon. "International journal of sustainable development and world ecology", 01 Febrer 2009, vol. 16, núm. 1, p. 48-60.
ISSN1350-4509
Publisher versionhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504500902760571
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