Author: Contrada, Richard J.; & Ashmore, Richard D.; editors:
Title: Self. Social Identity and Physical Health: Interdisciplinary Explorations
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xxiv,269 pp, Blind spine due to binder's error.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Series: Rutgers Series on Self and Social identity, Volume 2. Contains 10 papers. Includes: J.F. & L.C. Kihlstrom "Self, Sickness, Somatization & Systems of Care"; M. Lock "The Politics of Health, Identity & Culture"; D. R. Williams; et al: "Race, Stress & Physical Health: The Role of Group Identity"; J.W. Pennebaker & K.A. Keough "Revealing, Organizing & Reorganizing the Self in Response to Stress & Emotion"; S.C. Ouelette "The Relationship between Personality & Health: What Self & Identity Have to Do With It"; J. Brooks-Gunn & J.A. Garber "What's Sex Got To Do With It? The Development of Sexual Identities during Adolescence"; H. Leventhal; et al: "The Impact of Chronic Illness on the Self System"; K. Charmaz "From the ' Sick Role' to Stories of Self: Understanding the Self in Ilness"; R.D. Ashmore & R. J. Contrada "Self, Social Identity & the Analysis of Social & Behavioral Aspects of Physcial Health & Disease".

Keywords: Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Self, Identity, Medicine, Health Behavior, Behaviour, ,