Bücher von Alan Radley

This book is about the relationship between social psychology and the body. Or is it because social psychology is well advised to steer clear of problems that draw us back from the social toward what are seen as the biological and the prehistory of our discipline?

Presents an introduction to the social psychology of health and illness. This book shows how people make sense of illness in everyday life, either alone or with the help of others. It demonstrates the relevance of social and psychological explanations to questions about disease and its treatment.

Prospects of Heart Surgery: Psychological Adjustment to Coronary Bypass Grafting reports on a study of how patients and their spouses adjusted to the prospect, and then to the outcome, of coronary graft surgery.