The biopsychosocial model of health and disease : new philosophical and scientific developments /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bolton, Derek (Author), Gillett, Grant, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.