The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease : : New Philosophical and Scientific Developments.

• Author: Bolton, Derek.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gillett, Grant.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (157 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 The Biopsychosocial Model 40 Years On -- Abstract -- 1.1 Doing Well-But with Underlying Problems -- Engel's Proposed Improvement on the Biomedical Model -- The Presumed 'Overarching Framework' -- But Lacks Content, Validity and Coherence -- 1.2 Locating the Content of the Biopsychosocial Model -- Emerging Evidence of Psychosocial Causation -- The Scientific and Clinical Content Is in the Specifics -- So What's the Point of a 'General Model'? -- 1.3 The General Model: Biopsychosocial Ontology and Interactions -- Defining the Problem -- Biopsychosocial Data in Search of Theory -- Prejudicial Theory: Physicalism, Reductionism, Dualism -- Theorising Biopsychosocial Interactions-Not Parallel Worlds -- Finding the Right Metaphor: Evolution and Development -- Developing the General Model -- References -- Chapter 2 Biology Involves Regulatory Control of Physical-Chemical Energetic Processes -- Abstract -- 2.1 The New Biology/Biomedicine -- Life vs. The Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Energy Production and Control in Cells -- Regulatory Control by Genetic Information -- Error Is Fundamental to Biology -- Life Forms: Diversity Amidst the Physics -- 2.2 The Limitations of Physicalism -- Preamble and the Argument in Brief Lay Terms -- Physicalism -- Regulatory Mechanisms Do Not Affect Energy Equations -- Weaker-Ontological Only-Physicalism Is Problematic -- Causation by Events That Don't Happen -- Philosophy of Biology Notes -- Biological Information Is Semantic (Capable of Error) -- 2.3 Current Biomedicine Is Conducive to the Biopsychosocial Model -- References -- Chapter 3 Psychology Regulates Activity in the Social World -- Abstract -- 3.1 The Psychological as Embodied Agency -- Mind Is Embodied -- Agency Is Causal -- Embodiment Involves Intersubjectivity.

3.2 Biopsychosocial Conditions of Agency -- The Concept of Agency Has Broad Scope -- Biopsychological Preconditions and Implications -- Language an Instrument of Agency -- Agency as Moral Responsibility -- Agency as Autonomy Is a High Political Value -- Agency/Autonomy Depend on Recognition -- 3.3 The Socio-Political: Who Gets to Control What? -- Regulatory Control of Biopsychosocial Resources -- Socio-Political Causes Really Are Causes -- 3.4 General Theory of Biopsychosocial Systems -- The Thread so Far -- Life Forms: Diversity Amidst the Physics -- The Logic of Top-Down Causation -- Cross-Disciplinarity and New Human Sciences -- References -- Chapter 4 Biopsychosocial Conditions of Health and Disease -- Abstract -- 4.1 Conditions of Biopsychosocial Life -- 4.2 Biopsychosocial Conceptualisation of Health Conditions -- Concepts and Boundary Disputes -- The Logic of Disease Attribution Is Top-Down -- The Centrality of the Person -- Pain and Distress Have Personal Biopsychosocial Meaning -- 4.3 Locating Causes in Biopsychosocial Systems -- Identifying Dysfunctions and Modifiable Causes -- Identifying Causal Mechanisms -- Stress as a Biopsychosocial Causal Mechanism -- Biopsychosocial Research Framework -- Clinical Epistemology -- 4.4 Compare and Contrast Physical and Mental Health Conditions -- Psychiatry and 'The Rest of Medicine' -- The Difference Is Deeply Theorised and Institutionalised -- The Biopsychosocial Model Highlights Similarities -- 4.5 Locating the Biopsychosocial Model -- References -- Index.