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Designed to complement and support the textbook Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice, the Reader can also be used as a stand-alone resource for exploring key topics within the health psychology field. It includes incisive introductions to each section and a selection of the most important theoretical and empirical published work. Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Health psychology's development, definition and context -- Chapter 1 -- Behavioral health's challenge to academic, scientific, and professional psychology -- Chapter 2 -- Redefining health psychology: Matarazzo revisited -- Chapter 3 -- The need for a new medical model: A Challenge for Biomedicine -- Chapter 4 -- Theoretical tensions in biopsychosocial medicine -- Chapter 5 -- The Rhetoric and reality of psychosocial theories of health: A challenge to biomedicine? -- Part II: Theories in health psychology -- Chapter 6 -- Social foundations of thought and action -- Chapter 7 -- Emotion narratives: A radical new research approach -- Chapter 8 -- The role of theory in HIV prevention -- Chapter 9 -- Unravelling the mystery of health: How people manage stress and stay well -- Chapter 10 -- Some observations on health and socio-economic status -- Part III: Health behaviour and experience -- Chapter 11 -- Context and coping: Toward a unifying conceptual framework -- Chapter 12 -- An 'ecological' approach to the obesity pandemic -- Chapter 13 -- Moving towards active living: Understanding the contextual nature of barriers to physical activity -- Chapter 14 -- Conditional versus unconditional risk estimates in models of aids-related risk behaviour -- Chapter 15 -- Health and romance: Understanding unprotected sex in relationships between gay men -- Part IV: Health beliefs, explanations, communication, eduation and promotion -- Chapter 16 -- Cultural diversity in casual attributions for illness: The role of the supernatural -- Chapter 17 -- Illness perceptions: A new paradigm for psychosomatics? -- Chapter 18 -- Consumer/Provider communication research: A personal plea to address issues of ecological validity, relational development, message diversity, and situational constraints -- Chapter 19 -- From analysis to synthesis: Theories of health education -- Chapter 20 -- A new evidence framework for health promotion practice -- Part V: Critical health psychology -- Chapter 21 -- Critical approaches to health psychology -- Chapter 22 -- Theorizing health and illness: Functionalism, subjectivity and reflexivity -- Chapter 23 -- A discourse-dynamic approach to the study of subjectivity in health psychology -- Chapter 24 -- Health psychology, embodiment and the question of vulnerability -- Chapter 25 -- Possible contributions of a psychology of liberation: Whither health and human rights? -- Glossary -- References -- Index