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Theater of Disorder: Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness
: :There are certain phenomena, such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, claims of satanic ritual abuse, alien abduction syndrome, and culture-specific disorders that, although common, are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide a different explanation for them. Wenegrat argues that they are socially constructed illness roles or purposive behavior patterns into which patients fall while receiving either unintentional or intentional cues during interactions with caretakers and authority figures. The application of ...
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Dancing with Mr. D.
: :As cancer rates soar, and the issue of 'self-deliverance' stays in the headlines, the American pre-occupation with death and dying has never been more intense. In this remarkable new book, Bert Keizer, a Dutch doctor with training in philosophy as well as medicine, probes these concerns with understanding and insight as he shares with us his extraordinary experiences among the terminally ill.We follow Keizer through his days at a nursing home in Holland as he listens to his patients' stories, documents their battle with disease, and witnesses their taking their own lives ...
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The Handbook of Health Behavior Change
: :Praise for the second edition: 'This handbook sets a standard for conceptually based, empirically validated health behavior change interventions for the prevention and treatment of major diseases. It is an invaluable resource for the field of behavioral medicine as we work toward greater integration of proven health behavior change interventions into evidence-based medical practice.'--Susan J. Curry, PhD, Director, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound; Fellow, Society of Behavioral Medicine Numerous acute and chronic diseases can be prevented simply by maintaining healthy behavioral patterns. This handbook provides practical and ...
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Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine: An Illustrated Colour Text
from: Churchill Livingstone
: :This valuable text integrates sociology and psychology to focus on how each impact and affect medicine. Presented in a highly visual double-page spread format with over 170 high-quality illustrations, this resource includes discussion of the life cycle, society and health, preventing illness and promoting health, and much more.
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It All Begins With Hope: Patients, Caregivers, and the Bereaved Speak Out
: :This valuable text integrates sociology and psychology to focus on how each impact and affect medicine. Presented in a highly visual double-page spread format with over 170 high-quality illustrations, this resource includes discussion of the life cycle, society and health, preventing illness and promoting health, and much more.
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Psychocutaneous Diseases
: :This valuable text integrates sociology and psychology to focus on how each impact and affect medicine. Presented in a highly visual double-page spread format with over 170 high-quality illustrations, this resource includes discussion of the life cycle, society and health, preventing illness and promoting health, and much more.
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Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Music
: :Dr. Sandblom explores the intriguing connections between illness, art and creativity. He elucidates the ways in which specific ailments affect the creative personality. Discussing the influence of mental illness, physical infirmity, pain and addiction on 140 authors, artists and composers-among them Byron, Dostoyevsky and William Styron, artists Goya, Klee and Monet, and composers Mozart, Schumann and Beethoven.In this twelfth revised and enlarged edition of a ground-breaking study on the life and work of some of our greatest artists, Dr Philip Sandblom explores the intriguing connections between illness, art and creativity. He elucidates ...
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Assistive Technology: Matching Device and Consumer for Successful Rehabilitation
from: American Psychological Association (APA)
: :An exploration of the ways in which psychologists and other helping professionals can collaborate with users of assistive technology to help them get the most out of these devices. Thanks in large part to the 20th century's advances in technology, people with disabilities can live independent lives, contribute to their communities, attend regular schools, and work in professional careers as a result of assistive technology. This technological evolution has formented a shift from a medical model to a social model of technology delivery, an approach that puts as much emphasis on the ...
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Health Psychology: An Introduction to Behavior and Health, Second Edition
: :The text builds from a history of the field, through research methods, and then on to contemporary issues (living with chronic illness, behaviours affecting health and more). This book should be of interest to undergraduates of health psychology.
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Transpersonal Medicine
: :An introduction to the broad-based medical approach of 'transpersonal medicine' to human health explores the interconnections of the mind, body, and soul; the many ways in which human consciousness facilitates healing; and various methods of alternative medicine in use today. 15,000 first printing.
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