Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine: An Illustrated Colour Text by Beth Alder
An integrated textbook of sociology and psychology for medical students which makes the maximum possible use of colour and illustration.
Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine
Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine
Summary
This text integrates sociology and psychology, concentrating on the areas applicable to medicine. It covers such topics as: the life cycle; how does the person develop?; society and health; illness behaviour and the doctor-patient encounter.
Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine Summary
Table of Contents
THE LIFE CYCLE Pregnancy and childbirth . Reproductive issues . Development in early infancy . Childhood and child health . Adolescence . Adulthood and mid age . Aging . Bereavement. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERSON What is personality? . Understanding learning . Perception . Memory and forgetting . Development of sexuality . Intelligence . Development of thinking. SOCIETY AND HEALTH Understanding groups .Concepts of health, illness and disease . Measuring health and illness . Changing patterns of health and illness . Social class and health . Gender and health . Ethnicity and health . Quality of life . Media and health . Aging, society and health . Housing, homeless and health . Work and health .Unemployment and health . Labeling and stigma. PREVENTING ILLNESS AND PROMOTING HEALTH What is prevention? . Medical screening . The social implications of the new genetics . Changing individual behaviour . The social context of behavioural change . Health promotion in medical practice . Illegal drugs . Alcohol problems . Smoking . Eating and its effect . Perceptions of risk and risk-taking behaviour. ILLNESS BEHAVIOUR AND DOCTOR-PATIENT ENCOUNTER Deciding to consult . Seeing the doctor . Placebo . Patient adherence . Communication skills . Breaking bad news . Self care and alternative treatment . The experience with hospitals . Psychological preparation for surgery. ILLNESS AND DISABILITY Heart disease . Social aspects of HIV/AIDS . Cancer . Anxiety . Depression . Inflammatory bowel disease . Physical disability . Learning disability . Post traumatic stress disorder . Diabetes . Stress and health . Respiratory . Death and dying. COPING WITH ILLNESS AND DISABILITY Counselling . Adaptation, coping and control . Stress management . Cognitive-behaviour therapy . Role of carers . Self-help groups . Palliative care . Complementary therapies . Management of pain . Health beliefs and health behaviour. HOW DO HEALTH SERVICES WORK? Organising and funding health care . Assessing needs . Setting priorities and rationing . Community care. HOW DO YOU FIT INTO ALL THIS? Medical students' experience . Being a junior doctor . The profession of medicine.
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GOR002834721
9780443072956
0443072957
Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine: An Illustrated Colour Text by Beth Alder
Used - Good
Paperback
Elsevier Health Sciences
20040907
192
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