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UNINA9910814473103321 |
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Autore |
Myslobodsky Michael |
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Titolo |
The fallacy of mother's wisdom : a critical perspective on health psychology / / Michael S. Myslobodsky |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-87709-3 |
9786611877095 |
981-256-568-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (466 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Clinical health psychology |
Medicine and psychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-442) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; 1 The Point of Departure: The Pillars of the Health Psychology Edifice; 2 'Bad Boys' and Prenatal Programming; 3 Between Psychiatry and Medicine: Illness in Search of a Place; 4 The Deadly Trio; 5 Collective Exaggerated Emotions; 6 A Complementary Point of View; 7 Holistic Philosophy and a Recipe for Causative Goulash; 8 If Health Psychology is the Answer, What was the Question?; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Health psychology is an offer of help, an effort to understand how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health and illness. As one of the fast-growing sub-specialties, it has now outstripped other divisions of psychology in terms of excitement in the public eye. |
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