Behavior and Medicine

Forewords; Preface; Acknowledgments; Poetry Credits; Contributors; Part 1: Mind-Body Interactions in Health and Disease; Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Daniel J. Siegel, Alex W. Siegel, & Jack B. Amiel; Families, Relationships, and Health by Margaret L. Stuber; Birth, Childhood, and Adolescence by Harsh K. Trivedi & Pamela J. Beasley; Early Adulthood and the Middle Years by Joseph D. LaBarbera, Sharon Turnbull, & Barry Nurcombe; Old Age by Randall Espinoza & Randy Mervis; Death, Dying, and Grief by John E. Ruark; Chronic Benign Pain by Laurence A. Bradley; Part 2: Patient Behavior; Stress and Illness by John E. Carr; Addictions by Thomas F. Newton; Psychodynamic Approaches to Human Behavior by Peter B. Zeldow; Facilitating Health Behavior Change by Adam Arechiga; Human Sexuality by Jeannine Rahimian, Jonathan Bergman, George R. Brown, & Salvador Ceniceros; Part 3: The Physician's Role; Medical Student and Physician Well-Being by Margaret L. Stuber; Working with Other Professionals, Organizations, and Communities by Iris Cohen Fineberg; Part 4: Physisian-Patient Interactions; The Physician-Patient Relationship by Howard Brody; Communicating with Patients by Peter Zeldow & G. Makoul; Diagnostic Reasoning in Medicine by Barry Nurcombe; Patient Assessment by John C. Linton & Steve Coay; Recognizing and Treating Psychopathology in Primary Care by Debra Bendell Estroff & Pilar Bernal; Managing Difficult Patients by Brenda Bursch; Humanities and the Practice of Medicine by Steven C. Schlozman; Part 5: Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care; Culturally Competent Health Care by David M. Snyder & Peter Kunstadter; Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Marc E. Brodsky & Ka-Kit Hui; The Impact of Social Inequalities on Health Care by Russell F. Lim, F. G. Lu, & Donald M. Hilty; Part 6: Health Policy and Economics; Health Services in the United States by E. Andrew Balas; American Medicine in Sick by David T. Feinberg; Appendices; A. Behavioral and Social Science Topics of High and Medium Priority for Inclusion in Medical School Curricula from the Institute of Medicine Report on Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula; B. Medical Statistics & Research Design by Fredric M. Wolf; C. Abriged Directory of Humanities Resources for Medical Education and Practice by Steven C. Schlozman, Carol C. Donley & Martin Kohn; D. USMLE Practice Questions; E. Answer Key to USMLE Practice Questions; Subject Index.