Beschrijving
This new edition of one of the most popular and highly regarded texts on behavioral science and psychology has been fully updated and restructured to reflect the latest Institute of Medicine recommendations on the teaching of behavioral sciences in medicine. Its 26 chapters are divided into six core domains: mind-body interactions in health and disease, patient behavior, the physician’s role and behavior, physician-patient interactions, social and cultural issues in health care, and health policy and economics.
Danny Wedding, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is joined as editor by Margaret L. Stuber, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA for this edition. Under their careful guidance and editing, around 40 leading educators from major medical faculties have contributed to produce the most comprehensible and didactically well-designed text in its field.
Unique to Behavior and Medicine, for instance, is the use of hundreds of works of art, poetry, and aphorisms to provoke thought and interest and to illuminate the most important points. Its main features are:
- Practical, clinical emphasis, based around the core topics recommended by the Institute of Medicine
- Comprehensive, trustworthy, and up-to-date
- Competitive price compared to other much less comprehensive, question-and-answer-type, course review works
- Written and carefully edited by leading educators at major medical faculties
- Numerous case examples, tables, charts, and boxes for quick access to information
- Learning and exam aids, such as sample USMLE review questions
- New chapters on: physician well-being; working with other professionals, organizations, and communities; facilitating health behavior change; communicating with patients; management of difficult patients; culturally competent healthcare; impact of social inequalities; and economics and health
From the reviews
"I have read, cover to cover, each of the previous three editions of Danny Wedding’s Behavior in Medicine, and I am an admiring fan of Dr. Wedding and of the series.
"Like its predecessors, this edition is written crystal clearly, and it is a very enjoyable up-to-date “read” filled with wise perceptions and precious information and recommendations.
"Its chapters on interviewing and on difficult patients provide numerous helpful examples of patient- doctor dialog with explanations, very useful in preparing for the commonly asked USMLE “what do you say to the patient” test items. The chapter on cultural competence is down-to-earth and practical. The chapter on medical student culture will strike home for many readers. The one on medical humanities is interesting and instructive and, as in the previous editions, the literary quotes and artwork give the book a unique texture and aesthetic dimension. All the authors are experts and fine writers."
Frederick S. Sierles, MD, Professor and Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
"This is a unique, multidisciplinary textbook that reexamines the impact of the often overlooked contributions of psychosociocultural factors in the individual experiences in, and behavior toward, healthcare. It also focuses on the maladaptive behaviors of physicians, patients, industries, and current health policy that have contributed to the current state of healthcare in the United States.
"Although the original targeted audience was medical students preparing to take the United States Medical Licensing Examination, it appears that the book is also used by students of various healthcare professions including those in public health, nursing, and social work.
"This is an amazing resource that fulfills an important role in the comprehensive education of healthcare professionals. It is a reminder of the humanistic approach to medicine in the modern era with a focus on the societal and cultural contributions to an individual's experience with, and behavior within, the healthcare system. Finally, it also serves as a strong reminder of the sickness of our current healthcare delivery model and the need to change this fundamental component prior to anticipating significant changes in the behavior of patients."
Marie A. Dewitt, MD (Rush University Medical Center) in Doody's Book Review
"...well-organised edition...a standard teaching text in North America...covers the gamut of behaviour science involved in medical practice...good value for its price and size..."
N K COOPER, Consultant Occupational Physician BFG Health Service in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Praktische informatie
2006, 4th. updated and completely revised edn. 2006
408 pp.
€ 39.95
ISBN: 978-0-88937-305-1
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