Published November, 2011
By Robert T Croyle and J.A. Skelton
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Contributions to Psychology and Medicine
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How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do their conceptions conflict with the physician's views of their illness, and what happens if they do? This book thoroughly explores the field of disease representation, describes and discusses lay illness models in a variety of social, histo- rical and cultural contexts.

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Published November, 2011
By Barbara L. Andersen
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A Woman With Cancer Deborah came to University Hospital when she was 25. Further tumor workup, which included a pelvic ultrasound, bladder cystoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, and chest x-ray, was normal, although the IVP was notable for nonvi sualization of the right ureter, thought to be secondary to an enlarged lymph node.

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Published October, 2011
By Christine Eiser
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The pattern of childhood illness has changed significantly during this century. Technological advances which have resulted in the medical treatment of these conditions have, however, created a gamut of psychological problems for the children and their families.

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Published October, 2011
By Elsa G. Shapiro, Alvin A. Rosenfeld, Norman Cohen, Dorothy A. Levine and Bruce Renken
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Norman Cohen, then a post doc, was very interested in pain and biofeedback, having worked extensively in the Pain Clinic at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.

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Published October, 2011
By Paul M. Camic and Frederick D. Brown
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Assessing Chronic Pain offers a unique approach to the evaluation and assessment of treatment for chronic pain patients.

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Published October, 2011
By Michael Baum and Colette Ray
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Published October, 2011
By Stephen Bochner
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A major aim of this book is to show how the application of soundly based psychological theory and practice can improve patient management, reduce the stress of practicing dentistry, and contribute to the design of effective community dental health campaigns.

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Published October, 2011
By Steven Schwartz and Timothy Griffin
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Although much of the information used in clinical decision making is objective, the physician's values (a belief that pain relief is more important than potential addiction to pain-killing drugs, for example) and subjectivity are as much a part of the clinical process as the objective findings of laboratory tests.

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Published October, 2011
By Alan Radley
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Prospects of Heart Surgery: Psychological Adjustment to Coronary Bypass Grafting reports on a study of how patients and their spouses adjusted to the prospect, and then to the outcome, of coronary graft surgery.

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Published September, 2011
By Michel Pierre Janisse and Michel P. Janisse
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Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology presents recent research on how individual differences lead to the variety of reactions people display to stressors.

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