| Description |
xvi, 389 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Mind, brain, and behavior -- Families, relationships, and health -- Birth, childhood, and adolescence -- Early adulthood and the middle years -- Old age -- Death, dying, and grief -- Chronic benign pain -- Stress and illness- Addictions -- Psychodynamic approaches to human behavior -- Facilitating health behavior change -- Human sexuality -- Medical Student and physician well-being -- Working with other professionals, organizations, and communities -- The Physician-patient relationship -- Communicating with patients -- Diagnostic reasoning in medicine -- Patient assessment -- Recognizing and treating psychopathology in primary care -- Managing difficult patients -- The Humanities and the practice of medicine -- Culturally competent health care -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- The Impact of social inequalities on health care -- Health services in the United States -- American medicine is sick -- Appendix A: Behavioral and social science topics of high and medium priority for inclusion in medical school curricula -- Appendix B: Medical statistics & research design -- Appendix C: Abridged directory of humanities resources for medical education and practice -- Appendix D: USMLE practice questions -- Appendix E: Answer key to USMLE practice questions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medicine and psychology -- Textbooks.
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Sick -- Psychology -- Textbooks.
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Health behavior -- Textbooks.
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Behavioral Medicine.
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Health Behavior.
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Human Development.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Stuber, Margaret L., 1953-
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Wedding, Danny.
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| LC no. |
2006920396 |
| ISBN |
0889373051 paperback |
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9780889373051 |
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