The biopsychosocial model of health and disease : new philosophical and scientific developments / Derek Bolton, Grant Gillett

Author: Bolton, Derek
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Physical Description: xiii, 149 pages ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators: Gillett, Grant, 1950-

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1. The biopsychosocial model 40 years on. Doing well--but with underlying problems ; Locating the content of the biopsychosocial model ; The General Model : biopsychosocial ontology and interactions -- 2. Biology involves regulatory control of physical-chemical energetic processes. The new biology/biomedicine ; The limitations of physicalism ; Current biomedicine is conducive to the biopsychosocial model -- 3. Psychology regulates activity in the social world. The psychological as embodied agency ; Biopsychosocial conditions of agency ; The socio-political : who gets to control what? ; General theory of biopsychosocial systems -- 4. Biopsychosocial conditions of health and disease. Conditions of biopsychosocial life ; Biopsychosocial conceptualisation of health conditions ; Locating causes in biopsychosocial systems ; Compare and contrast physical and mental health conditions ; Locating the biopsychosocial model.

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9783030118983 (hbk.)
3030118983

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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