Screen LibraryThe origins of health and disease
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 341 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521895392 (hardback) 0521895391 (hardback) 9780521719704 (pbk.) 0521719704 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | R363 |
| CLC: | R363.1 |
| Call Number: | R363.1/H996 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-338) and index. 1. The two philosophies: health, disease, medicine and psychotherapy -- 2. The body's mind: psychoneuroimmunology, stress and adaptive response -- 3. Personality, disease and the meaning of infornet dysregulation -- 4. Networks and their properties -- 5. The causes of dysregulation: associative learning, food intolerance and the effects of stress throughout the lifespan -- 6. The causes of dysregulation: supervised learning, repetitive strain injury, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression -- 7. The causes of dysregulation: asthma and precursors to s "Some phenomena in medicine and psychology remain unexplained by current theory. Chronic fatigue syndrome, repetitive strain injury and irritable bowel syndrome, for example, are all diseases or syndromes that cannot be explained in terms of a physiological abnormality. In this intriguing book, Michael Hyland proposes that there is a currently unrecognised type of illness which he calls 'dysregulatory disease'. Hyland shows how such diseases develop and how the communication and art of medicine, good nursing care, complementary medicine and psychotherapy can all act to reduce the dysregulati |