Health is maintained by the coordinated operation of all the biological systems that make up the individual. The Introduction to Psychoneuroimmunology 2e presents an overview of what has been discovered by scientists regarding how bodily systems respond to environmental challeng…
"Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress in bodily form because they lack the linguistic categories to express distress psychologically? Do some religions encourage cli…
"Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress in bodily form because they lack the linguistic categories to express distress psychologically? Do some religions encourage cli…
While European restaurants race to footnote menus, reassuring concerned gourmands that no genetically modified ingredients were used in the preparation of their food, starving populations around the world eagerly await the next harvest of scientifically improved crops. This book…
by Singer, Jerome E., Baum, Andrew E., Revenson, Tracey A.
This edited volume provides a comprehensive source on health psychology.
This 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.
In this original work, Alex Zautra offers a fresh approach to understanding how emotions and stress influence health. When we brave the emotional complexities within our lives, according to Zautra, we resolve many paradoxes that we face in understanding ourselves. When we ask ou…
"Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular identity bind - living in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence and/or trau…
"Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and sewer service for African A…
"Focusing on human relationships with other species and the natural environment, Biodiversity is essential reading for all biologists, ecologists, geographers and environmental scientists needing a concise, up-to-date introduction to this interdisciplinary subject."--Jacket.
With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and dem…
With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and dem…
