Psychobiological Processes in Health and Illness - Softcover

Hamilton-West, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847872441 ISBN 13: 9781847872449

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Psychobiological Processes in Health and Illness is an accessible and engaging introduction to the interrelationships between mind and body across a broad range of topics including infectious illness, autoimmunity, cancer and pain. Taking a biopsychosocial approach, it brings together research from a number of disciplines including health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral genetics. The textbook presents established theoretical models relevant to psychobiological processes in health and illness, as well as recent developments in systems, technologies and intervention methods.

About this title

Review:

A fantastic contribution to health psychology. My PhD students and medical students are instructed to read it (not often I recommend books these days). It feels like the field has been waiting for this for a long time
Dr Lis Cordingley
Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Manchester

An engaging and well written health psychology textbook with a strong psychobiological focus
Dr Daryl O'Connor
University of Leeds

About the Author:

Dr Kate Hamilton-West is a Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of Kent

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847872441
• ISBN 13: 9781847872449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256