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• Title:Biopsychosocial medicine : an integrated approach to understanding illness / edited by Peter White.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:White, Peter.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2005.
  

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  • Call Number: WM90 .B565 2005
    
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  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WM90 .B565 2005
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Holistic medicine.
  Medicine and psychology.
  Social medicine.
  
• Medical Subjects: Psychophysiologic Disorders--etiology.
  Holistic Health.
  Psychophysiologic Disorders--therapy.
  Social Medicine.
  Stress, Psychological--complications.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xxiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0198530331 (hardback : alk. paper)
  019853034X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:The history of the biopsychosocial approach in medicine: before and after Engel / Edward Shorter
  The theoretical basis of the biopsychosocial model / Helge Malmgren
  Remediable or preventable social factors in the aetiology and prognosis of medical disorders / Michael Marmot
  Remediable or preventable psychological factors in the aetiology and prognosis of medical disorders / Andrew Steptoe
  The biopsychosocial approach: a note of caution / George Davey Smith
  Can neurobiology explain the relationship between stress and disease? / Stafford Lightman
  Fear and depression as remediable causes of disability in common medical conditions in primary care / Michael Von Korff
  How important is the biopsychosocial approach? Some examples from research / Jos Kleijnen
  Complementary and alternative medicine: shopping for health in post-modern times / Adrian Furnham
  A case of irritable bowel syndrome that illustrates the biopsychosocial model of illness / Doug Drossman
  Are the patient-centred and biopsychosocial approaches compatible? / Francis Creed
  What are the barriers to healthcare systems using a biopsychosocial approach, and how might they be overcome? / Kate Lorig
  Final discussion: how to overcome the barriers
  Beyond the biomedical to the biopsychosocial: integrated medicine / Peter White.