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Ogden, J. (1995b) Changing the subject of health psychology, Psychology and
Health, 10: 257–65.
This paper addresses some of the assumptions in health psychology and discusses the interrelationship between theory, methodology and the psychological individual.
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Ogden, J. (1995c) Psychosocial theory and the creation of the risky self, Social
Science and Medicine, 40: 409–15.
This paper examines the changes in psychological theory during the twentieth
century and relates them to discussions about risk and responsibility for health
and illness.
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Ogden, J. (1997) The rhetoric and reality of psychosocial theories: a challenge to
biomedicine? Journal of Health Psychology, 2: 21–9.
This paper explores health psychology’s apparent challenge to biomedicine.
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Ogden, J. (2002) Health and the Construction of the Individual. London:
Routledge.
This book explores how both psychological and sociological theory construct
the individual through an exploration of methodology, measurement, theory and
the construction of boundaries.
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