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Using a human-interest story at the start of each chapter, to personalize each topic as it is introduced, this text on health psychology weaves case studies and news reports into the empirical content. The author aims to strike a balance between theories, principles and applications, and links issues of humanity and science to provide a context for understanding health and illness. He provides a selective, rather than encyclopaedic, approach to the subject, and integrates issues of gender, ethnicity and culture, covering topics such as AIDS, substance abuse, stress, eating disorders, and chronic illness.