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Titolo: | The psychology of health : an introduction / / edited by Marian Pitts and Keith Phillips |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998 |
Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
Disciplina: | 613.019 |
616/.001/9 | |
Soggetto topico: | Clinical health psychology |
Medicine and psychology | |
Altri autori: | PittsMarian <1948-> PhillipsKeith <1951-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-389) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
CancerWIDER SOCIAL ISSUES; Child health, illness and family influences; Social circumstances, inequalities and health; Glossary; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The psychology of health |
ISBN: | 1-134-74868-X |
0-203-44174-5 | |
1-281-32569-4 | |
9786611325695 | |
1-134-74869-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819559503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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