The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease

Abstract

Part I. The biopsychosocial model: a diagnostic assessment.- Ch. 1. Much invoked -- but deeply flawed?.- Ch.2. Locating the scientific and clinical content.- Ch. 3 The core theory problem: biopsychosocial causal interactions.- Ch. 4 The first step: updating the biomedical model.- Part II. Core non-reductionist concepts in biology and biomedicine.- Ch.5 Biology.- Ch.6 Physicalism.- Part III. Biology opens up to the BioPsychoSocial.- Ch.7 The Biomedical Model opens up to the Biopsychosocial.- Ch.8 The Psychological as Agency.- Ch.9 Conditions of Agency.- Ch.10 The socio-political : who gets to control what?.- Ch.11 Biopsychosocial systems.- Part IV. Biopsychosocial conditions of health and disease.- Chapter 12. Conditions of biological, psychological and social life.- Chapter 13. Biopsychosocial conceptualisation of health conditions.- Chapter 14. Locating causes in biopsychosocial systems.- Chapter 15. Compare and contrast physical and mental health conditions.- Ch.16 Locating the Biopsychosocial Model.