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Family Medicine

Principles and Practice

Editors:

  1. Robert B. Taylor

    1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

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Table of contents (139 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-liii
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  2. Family Medicine: Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages lv-lv
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    2. Behavior

      1. Health Care for the Family
        • B. Lewis Barnett Jr.
        Pages 1-3
        PDF
      2. Human Developmental Perspectives
        • Lawrence L. Hirsch
        Pages 4-8
        PDF
      3. Family Structure and Development
        • Linda M. Garcia-Shelton, Howard Brody
        Pages 8-21
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      4. Health and Illness Behavior
        • Richard M. Baker, Donald M. Cassata
        Pages 22-28
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      5. Problem Differentiation
        • James S. McCormick
        Pages 29-32
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      6. Impact of Illness on the Family: Disease, Illness, and the Family Illness Trajectory
        • Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Bill D. Burr
        Pages 32-45
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      7. PDF
      8. Ethical Issues
        • Ronald A. Carson
        Pages 48-56
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    3. Concepts

      1. PDF
      2. Family Epidemiology
        • Martin J. Bass
        Pages 60-63
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      3. Family Resources
        • David E. Swee
        Pages 64-73
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      4. Assessment of Family Function
        • Gabriel Smilkstein
        Pages 74-84
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      5. Clinical Data Base: The Scope of Family Medicine
        • William L. Stewart
        Pages 85-88
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      6. PDF
      7. Natural History of Disease
        • Charles B. Freer, Ian R. McWhinney
        Pages 97-104
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      8. Disease Incidence and Prevalence
        • J. Christopher Shank
        Pages 104-121
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      9. Comprehensive and Continuous Care
        • Philip D. Sloane
        Pages 122-125
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      10. Longitudinal Care
        • P. Tennyson Williams
        Pages 126-141
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About this book

This Second Edition of Family Medicine: Principles and Practice presents a scien­ tific approach to health and illness in the context of mankind's most enduring societal unit-the family. This is a new book, building on the strengths of the First Edition. The emphasis of this book, like that of the specialty itself, is on the clinical delivery of health care; that is, how the practitioner manages common problems and recognizes uncommon entities encountered in office, hospital, home, and nursing home. In the First Edition, we were faced with the problem of how to organize a family medicine textbook that dealt with clinical topics yet represented more than a series of essays on the specialties for the generalist reader. We began by identifying specific objectives, outlined in the preface to the First Edition. From this evolved an approach which has been called the biopsycho­ social perspective-inclusion of behavioral, family, social, and cultural aspects of health care integrated with the traditional "manifestations-and-manage­ ment" textbook model. The First Edition also introduced a comprehensive classification of clinical problems in family medicine now used in curriculum planning in many family practice residency programs.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

    Robert B. Taylor

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Family Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Principles and Practice

  • Editors: Robert B. Taylor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 1983

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4002-8

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: CLXI, 2020

  • Topics: General Practice / Family Medicine, Internal Medicine

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