Handbook of behavioral medicine / [electronic resource] edited by W. Doyle Gentry.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Behavioral medicine : a new research paradigm / W. Doyle Gentry -- Sociocultural factors and disease etiology / S. Leonard Syme -- Personality, behavior patterns, and physical illness : conceptual and methodological issues / David S. Krantz and David C. Glass -- Social and psychological resources mediating stress-illness relationships in humans / W. Doyle Gentry and Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa -- Behavior and the immune system / Robert Ader and Nicholas Cohen -- Behavioral and psychological influences on gastrointestinal pathology : experimental techniques and findings / Jay M. Weiss -- Cardiovascular disease and hypertension / J. Alan Herd -- Coping and adaptation / Richard S. Lazarus and Susan Folkman -- The patient as decision maker / Irving L. Janis -- Compliance : a self-regulation perspective / Howard Leventhal, Rick Zimmerman, Mary Gutmann -- Community applications of behavioral medicine / John W. Farquhar, Nathan Maccoby, Douglas S. Solomon -- The behavioral treatment of somatic disorders / W. Stewart Agras.