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Health Psychology
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 50.00Health Psychology: A Critical Introduction aims to provide students with a stimulating alternative to current textbooks, placing the discipline within the context of the social world and providing a critical focus on traditional research. This book will be invaluable for students of health psychology across a range of disciplines. more...
Emotions, Stress, and Health
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 39.99This work offers a fresh approach to understanding how emotions and stress influence health. Zautra presents a convincing case for understanding our emotions in two dimensions: the pursuit of the positive and defense against the negative. more...
How Doctors Think
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 39.99Defines the nature and importance of clinical judgement. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. It also contends that there can be adverse side effects to assuming that medicine is strictly science. more...
Handbook of Primary Care Psychology
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 74.99Serves as a toolbox of clinical resources for the psychologist working in primary care settings. This handbook helps codify the role of the primary care psychologist by providing clinicians with background knowledge of the primary care system, orienting frameworks for practice, and overviews of clinical conditions. more...
Ending Life
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 22.99A sequel to the author's 1994 volume "The Least Worst Death". This work covers a range of topics, including suicide prevention, AIDS, suicide bombing, serpent-handling and other religious practices that pose a risk of death, genetic prognostication, suicide in old age, global justice and the "duty to die," suicide, and more. more...
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 29.99This is a revised and expanded edition with three new chapters and a new preface summarizing the progress in the area of pain management. In addition, the argument will appeal to psychologists and psychiatrists interested in the nature of pain and suffering. more...
Psychological Care for Ill and Injured People
McGraw-Hill Education 2003; US$ 168.00Examines the importance of psychological care for ill and injured people. This book gives practical advice to develop health professionals' personal clinical practice by providing a guide to the organization of psychological care and 'coaching' in the essential skills. It is suitable for health care professionals who have regular patient contact. more...
Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions
McGraw-Hill Education 2004; US$ 165.00What influences do psychological factors have in determining outcomes in health care? What are the different approaches within psychology which can be used to understand normal human functioning? This text takes account of the considerable changes that have taken place in health care education and in the delivery of health services. more...
Clinical Judgement In The Health And Welfare Professions
McGraw-Hill Education 2003; US$ 186.00Drawing on the authors' own detailed ethnographic and discourse analytic studies and on developments in social science, this book aims to reconstitute clinical judgement and case formulation as both practical-moral and rational-technical activities. It is for educators, managers, practitioners and advanced students in health and social care. more...
Means, Ends and Medical Care
Springer 2007; US$ 139.99In this remarkable book, Gary Wright brings his thirty years of experience as a physician in pediatric and family medicine together with his Ph.D. in philosophy to address the important problem of the nature of good medical reasoning. His intimate experiential knowledge of the founding assumptions of managed health care in America today is abundantly... more...









