Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-389) and indexes.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; An introduction to health psychology; Psychophysiology, health and illness; Stress and coping; PATIENT BEHAVIOUR AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ILLNESS; The medical consultation; The experience of treatment; Pain: psychological aspects; HEALTH ISSUES; Social drugs: effects upon health; The primary prevention of AIDS; Decision making for contraception and abortion; Essential hypertension; Coronary heart disease; Diabetes; Nutrition, exercise and health.
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Completely revised and updated second edition of this classic text which contains additional chapters on cancer, nutrition and exercise, social drugs and the impact of social inequalities upon health.
DAWSONERA
Psychology of health.
Clinical health psychology.
Medicine and psychology.
Attitude to Health.
Behavioral Medicine.
Disease-- psychology.
Health Behavior.
Psychophysiology.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Médecine et psychologie.
Santé-- Psychologie clinique.
Clinical health psychology.
HEALTH & FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.
MEDICAL-- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL-- Diseases.
MEDICAL-- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL-- Internal Medicine.
Medicine and psychology.
Medische psychologie.
Psychologie de la santé.
Santé-- Aspect psychologique-- Guides, manuels, etc.