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The Health Psychology Reader is designed to complement and support the recent textbook Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice by David F. Marks, Michael Murray, Brian Evans and Carla Willig (SAGE, 2000). It can also be used as a stand-alone resource given its didactic nature. The Reader explores key topics within the health psychology field with incisive introductions to each section by the Editor and includes a selection of the most important theoretical and empirical published work.
Theoretical Tensions in Biopsychosocial Medicine
Theoretical Tensions in Biopsychosocial Medicine
The concept of biopsychosocial medicine was advanced by Engel [1] in 1977 and has since achieved wide currency. As developed by Engel it was intended to save psychiatrists, who were then (and largely still are) torn between pursuing a biological reductionist model of mental illness, and hence becoming ...
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