Biopsychosocial Medicine - An integrated approach to understanding illness (Paperback, New)

To what extent do social factors such as stress cause physical diseases? How do psychological and social factors contribute to the healing process? The biopsychosocial model is an approach to medicine which stresses the importance of a holistic approach. It considers factors outside the biological process of illness when trying to understand health and disease. In this approach, a person's social context and psychological well-being are key factors in their illness and recovery, along with their thoughts, beliefs and emotions. Biopsychosocial Medicine examines the concept and the utility of this approach from its history to its application, and from its philosophical underpinnings to the barriers to its implementation. It is severely critical of the failure of modern medicine to treat the patient not the disease, and its neglect of psychological and social factors in the treatment of the ill. Focusing on chronic disabling ill health, this book takes the examples of arthritis, cancer, diabetes, lower back pain, irritable bowel syndrome and depression to show how the biopsychosocial model can be used in practice. It questions why, even when the biopsychosocial approach has been proved to be more effective than traditional methods in overcoming these disorders, is not more routinely used, and how barriers to its implementation can be overcome. Controversial and challenging, Biopsychosocial Medicine will be essential reading for all those who feel the biomedical model is failing them and their patients. It will enable readers to understand the model and how it can be implemented, in order to enhance their confidence and success as health professionals.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	April 2005
Editors:	Peter White
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-853034-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Health psychology
LSN:	0-19-853034-X
Barcode:	9780198530343

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