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The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease : New Philosophical and Scientific Developments.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bolton, Derek.
Other Authors: Gillett, Grant.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1 The Biopsychosocial Model 40 Years On
  • Abstract
  • 1.1 Doing Well-But with Underlying Problems
  • Engel's Proposed Improvement on the Biomedical Model
  • The Presumed 'Overarching Framework'
  • But Lacks Content, Validity and Coherence
  • 1.2 Locating the Content of the Biopsychosocial Model
  • Emerging Evidence of Psychosocial Causation
  • The Scientific and Clinical Content Is in the Specifics
  • So What's the Point of a 'General Model'?
  • 1.3 The General Model: Biopsychosocial Ontology and Interactions
  • Defining the Problem
  • Biopsychosocial Data in Search of Theory
  • Prejudicial Theory: Physicalism, Reductionism, Dualism
  • Theorising Biopsychosocial Interactions-Not Parallel Worlds
  • Finding the Right Metaphor: Evolution and Development
  • Developing the General Model
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Biology Involves Regulatory Control of Physical-Chemical Energetic Processes
  • Abstract
  • 2.1 The New Biology/Biomedicine
  • Life vs. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Energy Production and Control in Cells
  • Regulatory Control by Genetic Information
  • Error Is Fundamental to Biology
  • Life Forms: Diversity Amidst the Physics
  • 2.2 The Limitations of Physicalism
  • Preamble and the Argument in Brief Lay Terms
  • Physicalism
  • Regulatory Mechanisms Do Not Affect Energy Equations
  • Weaker-Ontological Only-Physicalism Is Problematic
  • Causation by Events That Don't Happen
  • Philosophy of Biology Notes
  • Biological Information Is Semantic (Capable of Error)
  • 2.3 Current Biomedicine Is Conducive to the Biopsychosocial Model
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Psychology Regulates Activity in the Social World
  • Abstract
  • 3.1 The Psychological as Embodied Agency
  • Mind Is Embodied
  • Agency Is Causal
  • Embodiment Involves Intersubjectivity.
  • 3.2 Biopsychosocial Conditions of Agency
  • The Concept of Agency Has Broad Scope
  • Biopsychological Preconditions and Implications
  • Language an Instrument of Agency
  • Agency as Moral Responsibility
  • Agency as Autonomy Is a High Political Value
  • Agency/Autonomy Depend on Recognition
  • 3.3 The Socio-Political: Who Gets to Control What?
  • Regulatory Control of Biopsychosocial Resources
  • Socio-Political Causes Really Are Causes
  • 3.4 General Theory of Biopsychosocial Systems
  • The Thread so Far
  • Life Forms: Diversity Amidst the Physics
  • The Logic of Top-Down Causation
  • Cross-Disciplinarity and New Human Sciences
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Biopsychosocial Conditions of Health and Disease
  • Abstract
  • 4.1 Conditions of Biopsychosocial Life
  • 4.2 Biopsychosocial Conceptualisation of Health Conditions
  • Concepts and Boundary Disputes
  • The Logic of Disease Attribution Is Top-Down
  • The Centrality of the Person
  • Pain and Distress Have Personal Biopsychosocial Meaning
  • 4.3 Locating Causes in Biopsychosocial Systems
  • Identifying Dysfunctions and Modifiable Causes
  • Identifying Causal Mechanisms
  • Stress as a Biopsychosocial Causal Mechanism
  • Biopsychosocial Research Framework
  • Clinical Epistemology
  • 4.4 Compare and Contrast Physical and Mental Health Conditions
  • Psychiatry and 'The Rest of Medicine'
  • The Difference Is Deeply Theorised and Institutionalised
  • The Biopsychosocial Model Highlights Similarities
  • 4.5 Locating the Biopsychosocial Model
  • References
  • Index.

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