Stress and medical procedures

Author(s)

• Johnston, Marie
• Wallace, Louise

Bibliographic Information

Stress and medical procedures

edited by Marie Johnston and Louise Wallace

（Oxford medical publications）

Oxford University Press, 1990

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study of the stress that results for patients from new technologies in medicine, combines three scientific theories of stress with an examination of its sources in five clinical areas. The authors of each chapter are specialists in their field, and all suggest methods of treatment to reduce the impact of stress on the patient.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Theoretical reviews of stress: emotional and behavioural processes, Howard Leventhal
• psychobiological stress responses, Andrew Steptoe
• stress and information processing, Andrew Smith. Part 2 Stress and medical practice: diagnostic procedures, Jenifer Wilson-Barnett
• medical treatments, Philip Kendall and James Epps
• surgical treatments, John Kincey and Sue Saltmore
• obstetrical procedures, Nancy E. Adler et al
• paediatric procedures, Sheri D. Pruitt and Charles H. Elliot.

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Details

• NCID: BA11381034
• ISBN:
  • 0192616730
• LCCN: 89008642
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 184 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R726.7
  • NLM : WM 172 S913255
  • DC20 : 616/.0019
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medicine and psychology
  • LCSH : Stress (Psychology)
  • LCSH : Medical technology
  • MESH : Diagnostic Tests, Routine
  • MESH : Stress, Psychological
  • MESH : Surgery, Operative -- psychology
  • MESH : Therapeutics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00293015