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This new edition of one of the most popular and highly regarded texts on behavioral science and psychology has been fully updated and restructured to reflect the latest Institute of Medicine's recommendations on the teaching of behavioral sciences in medicine. Its 26 chapters are divided into six core domains: mind-body interactions in health and disease; patient behavior; the physician's role and behavior; physician-patient interactions; social and cultural issues in health care; and health policy and economics. Danny Wedding, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri - Columbia, is joined as editor by Margaret Stuber, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA for this edition. Under their careful guidance and editing, around 40 leading educators from major medical faculties have contributed to produce the most comprehensible and didactically well-designed text in its field. Unique to Behavior and Medicine , for instance, is the use of hundreds of works of art, poetry, and aphorisms to provoke thought and interest and to illuminate the most important points. It's main features are: practical, clinical emphasis, based around the core topics recommended by the Institute of Medicine; comprehensive, trustworthy, and up-to-date; competitive price compared to other much less comprehensive, question-and-answer-type, course review works; written and carefully edited by leading educators at major medical faculties; numerous case examples, tables, charts, and boxes for quick access to information; learning and exam aids, such as sample USMLE review questions; and new chapters on: physician well-being; working with other professionals, organizations, and communities; facilitating health behavior change; communicating with patients; management of difficult patients; culturally competent healthcare; impact of social inequalities; and economics and health. This is a unique textbook, comprehensive and up-to-date, with a practical, clinical emphasis and a structure that is ideally suited to teaching behavioral sciences in the medical school classroom.

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...provides a comprehensive introduction to behavior and health...a useful resource to medical students and other health professionals... highlights a multitude of issues important to new clinicians...especially helpful to medical students who are concurrently involved in medical rotations. Kristine Donovan, MA & Kristin Kilbourn, PhD, MPH, in Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, Vol. 9 A book that countless medical students have found to be essential in their training and preparation for USMLE...an excellent teaching tool... author and contributors are credible and knowledgeable thought teachers...I recommend it without reservation. Nicholas Greco IV, Chicago Center for Clinical Research in Doody's Book Review A strong foundation for any behavioral science training program...an excellent resource for medical students...practical and comprehensive... a core text for many medical schools throughout the US. Barbara Joyce, PhD in Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education, Vol. 7 A favorite choice of directors of behavioral science courses...unique blend of science, literature, and art make it a pleasure to read...a uniquely useful contribution to medical student education. M.H. Ebert in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 63

...provides a comprehensive introduction to behavior and health...a useful resource to medical students and other health professionals... highlights a multitude of issues important to new clinicians...especially helpful to medical students who are concurrently involved in medical rotations. Kristine Donovan, MA & Kristin Kilbourn, PhD, MPH, in Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, Vol. 9 A book that countless medical students have found to be essential in their training and preparation for USMLE...an excellent teaching tool... author and contributors are credible and knowledgeable thought teachers...I recommend it without reservation. Nicholas Greco IV, Chicago Center for Clinical Research in Doody's Book Review A strong foundation for any behavioral science training program...an excellent resource for medical students...practical and comprehensive... a core text for many medical schools throughout the US. Barbara Joyce, PhD in Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education, Vol. 7 A favorite choice of directors of behavioral science courses...unique blend of science, literature, and art make it a pleasure to read...a uniquely useful contribution to medical student education. M.H. Ebert in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 63 This well organised edition of what is now a standard teaching text in North America has a structure reminiscent of Carl Jung's posthumously published Man and his SymbolsA (Aldus Jupiter 1964) which was aimed at the general reader. Sections such as Mind-Body Interactions in Health and Disease, Physician-Patient Interactions and Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care have their individual chapters illustrated with classical pictures (e.g. Albrecht Durer's Melencolia on page 142) and epigrams and poetry whose authors range from Epicurus to Albert Schweitzer. UK-based readers may be pleasantly surprised by the catholicity of sources acknowledged by the US-based contributors - Winnicott of Great Britain takes his place on page 134 alongside continental-based psychodynamic theorists such as Freud, Jung, Adler and Erikson (the latter of identity crisisA fame) as does Professor D R Laurence late of the Pharmacology Department of University College Hospital Medical School London. But how does the book stand up as a didactic work ? Quite well in the opinion of this reviewer. Americanisms apart (and even these have teaching value for any Army doctor liable for NATO duties - which means most of us) this text covers the gamut of behaviour science involved in medical practice without in any way usurping the place of an introductory textbook of psychiatry. Overall the book represents fairly good value for its price and size. No topic is introduced at a level of complexity which would require a second reading. Nevertheless plenty of direction to the reader who wishes to explore the literature further is given in the Suggested ReadingsA sections which conclude each of the 26 chapters. The final chapter headed American Medicine is SickA is worth reading as a very short account of how an essentially unplanned healthcare system can deliver virtually any diagnostic or therapeutic modality to those who can afford to pay, yet earlier (page 258) the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs considers that the patient's failure to pay a bill is itself not sufficient justification for terminating a therapeutic relationship. A text for the DMSD library service definitely; but for the GP's or specialist's office only if the occupant is especially interested, perhaps if engaged in research with a behaviour science aspect. Edinburgh graduates will doubtless approve of the book's references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and to the medical bildungsroman author (page 358) Colin Douglas. Reviewed by Nicholas Cooper, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, September issue 2006

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