This new edition of one of the most popular and highly regarded texts on behavioral science and psychology has been fully updated and restructured to reflect the latest Institute of Medicine recommendations on the teaching of behavioral sciences in medicine. Its 26 chapters are divided into six core domains: mind-body interactions in health and disease, patient behavior, the physician’s role and behavior, physician-patient interactions, social and cultural issues in health care, and health policy and economics.
Danny Wedding, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is joined as editor by Margaret L. Stuber, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA for this edition. Under their careful guidance and editing, around 40 leading educators from major medical faculties have contributed to produce the most comprehensible and didactically well-designed text in its field.
Unique to Behavior and Medicine, for instance, is the use of hundreds of works of art, poetry, and aphorisms to provoke thought and interest and to illuminate the most important points. Its main features are:
- Practical, clinical emphasis, based around the core topics recommended by the Institute of Medicine
- Comprehensive, trustworthy, and up-to-date
- Competitive price compared to other much less comprehensive, question-and-answer-type, course review works
- Written and carefully edited by leading educators at major medical faculties
- Numerous case examples, tables, charts, and boxes for quick access to information
- Learning and exam aids, such as sample USMLE review questions
- New chapters on: physician well-being; working with other professionals, organizations, and communities; facilitating health behavior change; communicating with patients; management of difficult patients; culturally competent healthcare; impact of social inequalities; and economics and health
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From the reviews
"I have read, cover to cover, each of the previous three editions of Danny Wedding’s Behavior in Medicine, and I am an admiring fan of Dr. Wedding... Like its predecessors, this edition is written crystal clearly, and it is a very enjoyable up-to-date “read” filled with wise perceptions and precious information and recommendations... Its chapters on interviewing and on difficult patients provide numerous helpful examples of patient- doctor dialog with explanations, very useful in preparing for the commonly asked USMLE “what do you say to the patient” test items. The chapter on cultural competence is down-to-earth and practical. The chapter on medical student culture will strike home for many readers. The one on medical humanities is interesting and instructive and, as in the previous editions, the literary quotes and artwork give the book a unique texture and aesthetic dimension. All the authors are experts and fine writers."
Frederick S. Sierles, MD, Professor and Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
"This is a unique, multidisciplinary textbook that reexamines the impact of the
often overlooked contributions of psychosociocultural factors in the individual
experiences in, and behavior toward, healthcare. It also focuses on the
maladaptive behaviors of physicians, patients, industries, and current health
policy that have contributed to the current state of healthcare in the United States... Although the original targeted audience was medical students preparing to take
the United States Medical Licensing Examination, it appears that the book is
also used by students of various healthcare professions including those in
public health, nursing, and social work... This is an amazing resource that fulfills an important role in the comprehensive
education of healthcare professionals. It is a reminder of the humanistic
approach to medicine in the modern era with a focus on the societal and
cultural contributions to an individual's experience with, and behavior within,
the healthcare system. Finally, it also serves as a strong reminder of the
sickness of our current healthcare delivery model and the need to change this
fundamental component prior to anticipating significant changes in the behavior
of patients."
Marie A. Dewitt, MD (Rush University Medical Center) in Doody's Book Review
"...well-organised edition...a standard teaching text in North America...covers
the gamut of behaviour science involved in medical practice...good value for its price and size..."
N K COOPER, Consultant Occupational Physician BFG Health Service in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
“In comparison to the textbooks on behavioural and social science in my student years, this book impressed me with its more ‘real-life’ approach to the topics. There were also plenty of case examples in the text, illustrating how to apply the different behavioural and social science principles in epidemiology, in identifying disease aetiology, and in the management of difficult clinical scenarios.”
Dr Samson YY Fong, FHKCPsych, FHKAM, in the Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 19, 2009
From the Foreword
"Drs. Wedding and Stuber and and their contributors have made an important contribution to the medical world with Behavior and Medicine. The artwork has been carefully and judiciously selected, the poems are moving, and the epigraphs are pointed. But, of course, the message is far more important than the packaging, and the message is clear: Physicians, nurses, and other health professionals can enhance their understanding of the conditions they encounter by more fully understanding the patients they treat and by appreciating the magnitude and significance of the cultural, social, economic, and political networks in which patient behaviors occur. Both students and practitioners will find that Behavior and Medicine is a fine place to start cultivating that understanding."
Tom Daschle, former Unites States Senator
From the Reviews of the Third Edition:
“...provides a comprehensive introduction to behavior and health...a useful resource to medical students and other health professionals...highlights a multitude of issues important to new clinicians...especially helpful to medical students who are concurrently involved in medical rotations.”
Kristine Donovan, MA & Kristin Kilbourn, PhD, MPH, in Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, Vol. 9, 2002
“...a book that countless medical students have found to be essential in their training and preparation for USMLE...
an excellent teaching tool...
author and contributors are credible and knowledgeable thought teachers...
I recommend it without reservation.”
Nicholas Greco IV, Chicago Center for Clinical Research in Doody’s Book Review
“...a strong foundation for any behavioral science training program...
an excellent resource for medical students
...practical and comprehensive...
a core text for many medical schools throughout the US.”
Barbara Joyce, PhD in Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education, Vol. 7 (2001)
“A favorite choice of directors of behavioral science courses...
unique blend of science, literature, and art make it a pleasure to read...
a uniquely useful contribution to medical student education”
M.H. Ebert in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 63 (2002)
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