| Description |
xviii, 484 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
1. Mind, brain and behavior / Daniel J. Siegel, Alex W. Siegel and Jack B. Amiel -- 2. Families, relationships, and health / Margaret L. Stuber -- 3. Birth, childhood, and adolescence / Harsh K. Trivedi and Pamela J. Beasley -- 4. Early adulthood and the middle years / Joseph D. LaBarbera, Sharon Turnbull and Barry Nurcombe -- 5. Old age / Randall Espinoza and Randy Mervis -- 6. Death, dying, and grief / John E. Ruark -- 7. Chronic benign pain / Laurence A. Bradley -- 8. Stress and illness / John E. Carr -- 9. Addictions / Thomas F. Newton -- 10. Psychodynamic approaches to human behavior / Peter B. Zeldow -- 11. Facilitating health behavior change / Adam Arechiga -- 12. Human sexuality / Jeannine Rahimian, Jonathan Bergman, George R. Brown and Salvador Ceniceros -- 13. Medical student and physician well-being / Margaret L. Stuber -- 14. Working with other professionals, organizations, and communities / Iris Cohen Fineberg -- 15. The physician-patient relationship / Howard Brody -- 16. Communicating with patients / Peter B. Zeldow and Gregory Makoul -- 17. Diagnostic reasoning in medicine / Barry Nurcombe -- 18. Patient assessment / John C. Linton and Steve Cody -- 19. Recognizing and treating psychopathology in primary care / Debra Bendell Estroff and Pilar Bernal -- 20. Managing difficult patients / Brenda Bursch -- 21. The humanities and the practice of medicine / Steven C. Schlozman -- 22. Culturally competent health care / David M. Snyder and Peter Kunstadter -- 23. Complementary and alternative medicine / Marc Brodsky and Ka-Kit Hui -- 24. The impact of social inequalities on health care / Russell F. Lim, Francis G. Lu and Donald M. Hilty -- 25. Health services in the United States / E. Andrew Balas -- 26. American medicine is sick / David T. Feinberg -- App. A. Behavioral and social science topics of high and medium priority for inclusion in medical school curricula -- App. B. Medical statistics & research design / Fredric M. Wolf -- App. C. Abridged directory of humanities resources for medical education and practice / Carol C. Donley, Martin Kohn and Steven C. Schlozman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health behavior.
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Medicine and psychology.
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Sick -- Psychology.
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Behavioral Medicine.
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Health Behavior.
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Human Development.
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Behavioral Medicine.
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Health Behavior.
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Human Development.
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| Author |
Wedding, Danny.
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| LC no. |
2000054204 |
| ISBN |
0889372381 (paperback) |
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