Table of Contents

1. Health Psychology: Setting the Stage.
2. Cultural Approaches to Health.
3. Essential Physiology.
4. Stress across Cultures.
5. Coping and Social Support.
6. Models of Behavior Change.
7. Health Behaviors: Eating, Physical Activity, Smoking, and Drinking.
8. Factors Surrounding Illness.
9. Pain.
10. Chronic Illness, Terminal Illness, and Death.
11. Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV.
12. Culture and Cancer.
13. Culture and Cardiovascular Disease.
14. The Future of Health Psychology.

About the Author

Regan A. R. Gurung is the chair of the psychology department at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. His research interests include stress and coping, changing health behaviors, and the media and health. He currently teaches courses in health psychology and culture, development, and health and has published widely in journals such as Psychological Review. Gurung has won several teaching awards, most recently the University of Wisconsin Green Bay's 2004 Founders Association Award for Excellence.

Reviews

1. Health Psychology: Setting the Stage. 2. Cultural Approaches to Health. 3. Essential Physiology. 4. Stress across Cultures. 5. Coping and Social Support. 6. Models of Behavior Change. 7. Health Behaviors: Eating, Physical Activity, Smoking, and Drinking. 8. Factors Surrounding Illness. 9. Pain. 10. Chronic Illness, Terminal Illness, and Death. 11. Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV. 12. Culture and Cancer. 13. Culture and Cardiovascular Disease. 14. The Future of Health Psychology.