By
Beth Alder, BSc, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, Emeritus Professor, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Charles Abraham, BA, DPhil, CPsychol, FBPsS, Professor of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Edwin van Teijlingen, MA, MEd, PhD, Reader in Public Health, Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Michael Porter, BA, MPhil, Senior Lecturer, General Practice Section, Division of Community Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
Description
This textbook in the Illustrated Colour Text series offers an integrated treatment of sociology and psychology for medical students. It
is presented in a much more colourful and graphic format than is usual for books on these two subjects. This integration reflects the
tendency to teach these two subjects together as “behavioural science”, with an increased stress on the place of medicine in society,
and on illness as a product of psychological and social circumstances rather than merely a biological phenomenon. The book reflects these
trends and has been successful and popular with students.
Included in series
Illustrated Colour Text
Audience:
Medical students and students of other professions allied to medicine
