Behavior and Medicine

by Wedding, Danny; Stuber, Margaret L.

• ISBN13: 9780889373051
• ISBN10: 0889373051
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-31
• Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber Pub

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Foreword	vi
Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Contributors	ix
Poetry Credits	xii
PART 1: MIND-BODY INTERACTIONS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Mind, Brain, and Behavior	3	(20)
Daniel J. Siegel
Alex W. Siegel
Jack B. Amiel
Families, Relationships, and Health	23	(8)
Margaret L. Stuber
Birth, Childhood, and Adolescence	31	(16)
Harsh K. Trivedi
Pamela J. Beasley
Early Adulthood and the Middle Years	47	(10)
Joseph D. LaBarbera
Sharon Turnbull
Barry Nurcombe
Old Age	57	(22)
Randall Espinoza
Randy Mervis
Death, Dying, and Grief	79	(12)
John E. Ruark
Chronic Benign Pain	91	(20)
Laurence A. Bradley
PART 2: PATIENT BEHAVIOR
Stress and Illness	111	(14)
John E. Carr
Addictions	125	(8)
Thomas F. Newton
Psychodynamic Approaches to Human Behavior	133	(12)
Peter B. Zeldow
Facilitating Health Behavior Change	145	(8)
Adam Arechiga
Human Sexuality	153	(14)
Jeannine Rahimian
Jonathan Bergman
George R. Brown
Salvador Ceniceros
PART 3: THE PHYSICIAN'S ROLE
Medical Student and Physician Well-Being	167	(8)
Margaret L. Stuber
Working with Other Professionals, Organizations, and Communities	175	(14)
Iris Cohen Fineberg
PART 4: PHYSICIAN-PATIENT INTERACTIONS
The Physician-Patient Relationship	189	(12)
Howard Brody
Communicating with Patients	201	(18)
Peter B. Zeldow
Gregory Makoul
Diagnostic Reasoning in Medicine	219	(8)
Barry Nurcombe
Patient Assessment	227	(12)
John C. Linton
Steve Cody
Recognizing and Treating Psychopathology in Primary Care	239	(10)
Debra Bendell Estroff
Pilar Bernal
Managing Difficult Patients	249	(12)
Brenda Bursch
The Humanities and the Practice of Medicine	261	(10)
Steven C. Schlozman
PART 5: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE
Culturally Competent Health Care	271	(10)
David M. Snyder
Peter Kunstadter
Complementary and Alternative Medicine	281	(6)
Marc Brodsky
Ka-Kit Hui
The Impact of Social Inequalities on Health Care	287	(16)
Russell F. Lim
Francis G. Lu
Donald M. Hilty
PART 6: HEALTH POLICY AND ECONOMICS
Health Services in the United States	303	(18)
E. Andrew Balas
American Medicine Is Sick	321	(62)
David T. Feinberg
PART 7: APPENDICES
Appendix A. Behavioral and Social Science Topics of High and Medium Priority for Inclusion in Medical School Curricula	331	(2)
Appendix B. Medical Statistics & Research Design	333	(18)
Fredric M. Wolf
Appendix C. Abridged Directory of Humanities Resources for Medical Education and Practice	351	(10)
Carol C. Donley
Martin Kohn
Steven C. Schlozman
Appendix D. USMLE Practice Questions	361	(14)
Appendix E. Answer Key to USMLE Practice Questions	375	(8)
Index	383