The sickening mind : brain, behaviour, immunity and disease / Paul Martin.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Harper Perennial, 2005.Description: [ix], 372 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780006550228 (pbk.) :
- 9780006550228
- Health attitudes
- Medicine and psychology
- Health behavior
- Mind and body
- Sick -- Psychology
- Health -- Psychological aspects
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Psychological aspects
- Health and Wellbeing
- Neurosciences
- Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology
- Popular psychology
- Psychiatry
- Science: general issues
- 616.80479 MAR
- 616.0019 21
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 616.80479 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 207959 |
Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 1997.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-357) and index.
. The Body of Knowledge:- Opening shots--Iraqi SCUDs and Chinese grandmothers--Roundheads and Cavaliers--Some completely fictitious case histories--Invisible worms--Chronic fatigue syndrome--2. Shadows on the Sun-- Death, disaster and voodoo--Trouble, strife and sickness-- Life events--The mind and the common cold --3. Psyche\'s Machine: The Inside Story --The perception of sickness -- Bad behaviour --Mind over immune matter --Understanding immunity --Autoimmunity -- Measuring immunity--The mind - immunity connections-- 4. Mind and Immunity-- What can the mind do to the immune system?-- Bereavement and nuclear disasters-- Spaceflight, exams and other nastiness -- Does it matter?-- What can the immune system do to the mind? --Depression --Immune conditioning-- Immune conditioning and disease -- Some allergic history revisited --The strange story of the left-handed brain --The wonderful world of herpes --5. The Demon Stress-- What is stress?-- The biology of stress --Stress, immunity and health --The quality of stress--Control, control and control --The joy of stress --The stress-seekers-- 6. Other People-- Hell is other people? - relationships as stressors -- Hell is alone? - the harmful effects of isolation -- How does it work? --Social relationships and immunity--The lonely future --7. The Wages of Work --The toad work-- Who suffers and why?-- The scourge of unemployment --8. Sick at Heart --Hearts and minds-- The mind in sudden cardiac death and heart disease --Coronary-prone personalities and heart disease --The Type A behaviour pattern--Type A - the evidence-- Anger and hostility --How does it work?-- Biological reactivity and the Type A person-- 9. The Mind of the Crab --The mind in cancer -- Is there a cancer-prone personality?-- Some fictional Type Cs-- Psychological influences on survival-- How does it work? 10. Encumbered with Remedies-- Relax!-- Exercise!--Those little pink pills-- Psychoneuroimmunology and AIDS-- Imagery, miracle cures and other exotica-- Kill or cure? --11. Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine -- That old mind--body problem--The grip of dualism --Some ancient history -- Rene Descartes and the separation of mind from body -- Descartes\' demise--12 - A Fresh Pair of Lenses-- Development-- Mothers and offspring -- Evolution-- Sick by design -- Genes for disease -- Diseases of modern life-- Evolutionary arms races-- The functions of unpleasantness-- Why does stress make us ill?-- Darwin\'s illness -- Parting shots.
Martin investigates how psychological and emotional factors influence health through their effects on behaviour and the immune system by exploring how the brain and immune system interact.