Research Catalog

Title

Medicine in society : behavioural sciences for medical students / edited by Christopher Dowrick.

Publication

London ; New York : Arnold, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dowrick, Christopher, 1951-

Description

vii, 266 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Medicine in Society provides an introduction to the group of subjects collectively known as the behavioural sciences, those sciences that concentrate on the context within which illness and disease arise, and the interactions between patient and health professionals take place. In general terms, they are concerned with the relationships between individuals, and the groups and societies within which they function. The include perspectives drawn from ethics, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, health economics and public administration. Medicine in Society offers medical students a framework for understanding all these behavioural sciences. It describes the theoretical bases of these subjects, explains the concepts of key importance to medical students, and links these concepts to clinical situations and experiences which they are likely to come across during their training." "The volume will be of principal interest to medicine undergraduates but will also be relevant to undergraduates in dentistry and nursing and allied health professions. Overall the text is of generic relevance in modern undergraduate medical courses which have an ongoing interest in behavioural perspectives."--Jacket.

Subject

• Medicine and psychology
• Social sciences
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Behavioral Sciences
• Psychology, Social
• Ethics, Medical
• Social Sciences
• Psychology
• Psychology, Medical
• social sciences
• psychology
• behavioral sciences
• social psychology
• Social psychology
• Medicine and psychology
• Social sciences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Christopher Dowrick -- Medical ethics / Lucy Frith -- Social determinants of health and illness / Ann Jacoby -- Patients and carers / Tony Hak -- Epidemiology / Mary Jane Platt and Simon Capewell -- Psychological perspectives / Christine Bundy -- Psychology and health / Christine Bundy -- Health economics / Cynthia Iglesias and David Torgerson -- Health promotion / Alan Beattie -- Health and social care / Stephen Abbott and Elizabeth Perkins -- Health systems under pressure / Peter Bundred.

ISBN

• 9780340760277
• 0340760273

OCLC

• ocm46846636
• 46846636
• SCSB-1230344

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library