Behavior and Medicine

by Danny Wedding (Editor), Margaret L. Stuber (Editor)

Overview

Help medical and other health care students successfully prepare for behavioral science foundation courses and examinations:

• Comprehensive, trustworthy, and up-to-date
• Quick access to information in case examples, tables, charts etc.
• Art and poetry humanize and enliven the material
• Includes USMLE-style review Q & As

The latest edition of this popular textbook on the behavioral and social sciences in medicine has been fully revised and updated to meet the latest teaching recommendations by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). It is an invaluable resource for behavioral science foundation courses and exam preparation in the fields of medicine and health, including the USMLE Step 1. Its 23 chapters are divided into five core sections: mind–body interactions in health and disease, patient behavior, the physician's role, physician–patient interactions, and social and cultural issues in health care.

Under the careful guidance and editing of Danny Wedding, PhD, Distinguished Consulting Faculty Member, Saybrook University, Oakland, CA, and Margaret L. Stuber, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, nearly 40 leading educators from major medical faculties have contributed to produce this well-designed textbook.

The following unique features of Behavior and Medicine make it one of the most popular textbooks for teaching behavioral sciences:

• Based on the core topics recommended by the NAM
• Numerous case examples, tables, charts, and boxes for quick access to information
• Resources for students and instructors, including USMLE-style review Q & As
• Specific "Tips for the Step" in each chapter guide learning
• The use of works of art, poetry, and aphorisms "humanize" the material
• Comprehensive, trustworthy, and up-to-date
• Competitive price

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613345603
Publisher:	Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
Publication date:	05/12/2020
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	354
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Wedding, Danny, PhD, MPH

Table of Contents

	Preface	V
	Acknowledgements	VI
	Foreword	VII
	Foreword	VIII
	Poetry Credits	X
	Contributors	XI
	The Physician and Society
1.	The Physician-Patient Relationship	3
2.	Families, Relationships, and Health	13
3.	Health Services in the United States	31
4.	Providing Health Care in a Multicultural Community	49
5.	Alternative Medicine	61
6.	Special Problems of Medical Students	67
	Foundations of Human Behavior
7.	Brain and Behavior	87
8.	Psychodynamic Formulations of Human Behavior	105
9.	Learning Theory and Human Behavior	117
	Progress Through the Life Cycle
10.	Birth, Childhood, Adolescence	135
11.	Early Adulthood and the Middle Years	161
12.	Human Sexuality in Health and Disease	171
13.	Old Age	185
14.	Death, Dying, and Grief	195
	Core Patient Issues
15.	Work and Health	209
16.	Sleep and Sleep Disturbances	219
17.	Stress and Illness	231
18.	Nicotine and Alcohol Addictions	247
	Making Decisions about Patients
19.	Clinical Interviewing	265
20.	Assessment of Patients	279
21.	Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision Making	297
22.	Facilitating Adherence to Treatment Regimens	305
	Behavior and Disease
23.	Chronic Benign Pain	321
24.	Behavior and Disability	337
25.	Behavior and Cardiovascular Disease	347
26.	Behavior and Cancer	355
27.	Behavior and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome	367
	Psychopathology
28.	Psychopathology	379
29.	Recognizing and Treating Psychopathology in Primary Care Medicine	407
	Appendices
Appendix A	Assessment of Mental Development in Children	419
Appendix B	Medical Statistics and Research Design	425
Appendix C	Literature and Medicine	441
Appendix D	Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction	451
Appendix E	Answer Key to Practice USMLE Questions	455
	Subject Index	473

Editorial Reviews

4 Stars! from Doody

This is an attractive, interesting book on psychosocial aspects of health, featuring chapters on the various stages of the life cycle; health issues related to love, sexuality, and work; assessing the mental health of patients; and unhealthy behaviors associated with preventable illnesses. Authors from throughout the United States contributed to the volume. The purpose is to describe how behavior affects health and to encourage the reader to practice a more humane, effective style of medicine. This is an extremely important task, considering the way medical education gives insufficient attention to the psychosocial component of health and the therapeutic value of empathy. The book meets this objective. Targeted especially to medical students, the book will be useful to students in other health professions as well, including nursing, public health, psychology, and physician assistants. The most striking feature is the extraordinary number of paintings, photographs, poems, and literary excerpts used effectively to illustrate the themes of the chapters. This second edition has significantly fewer references than the earlier one, appropriate given its purpose of introducing the subject to a broad range of students. The book is an excellent introduction to the psychosocial dimension of health, illness, and medicine. The chapters are written in a compact, clinically relevant, and interesting style that will engage all students, including those seeking a different perspective than the standard one taught in basic sciences and those who generally have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the trough of behavioral medicine.

Warren Lee Holleman

Reviewer: Warren Lee Holleman, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine)
Description: This is an attractive, interesting book on psychosocial aspects of health, featuring chapters on the various stages of the life cycle; health issues related to love, sexuality, and work; assessing the mental health of patients; and unhealthy behaviors associated with preventable illnesses. Authors from throughout the United States contributed to the volume.
Purpose: The purpose is to describe how behavior affects health and to encourage the reader to practice a more humane, effective style of medicine. This is an extremely important task, considering the way medical education gives insufficient attention to the psychosocial component of health and the therapeutic value of empathy. The book meets this objective.
Audience: Targeted especially to medical students, the book will be useful to students in other health professions as well, including nursing, public health, psychology, and physician assistants.
Features: The most striking feature is the extraordinary number of paintings, photographs, poems, and literary excerpts used effectively to illustrate the themes of the chapters. This second edition has significantly fewer references than the earlier one, appropriate given its purpose of introducing the subject to a broad range of students.
Assessment: The book is an excellent introduction to the psychosocial dimension of health, illness, and medicine. The chapters are written in a compact, clinically relevant, and interesting style that will engage all students, including those seeking a different perspective than the standard one taught in basic sciences and those who generally have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the trough of behavioral medicine.

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