Book of the Month: Biopsychosocial Medicine

Hippocrates. Airs, waters, places. Reproduced in: Buck C. , Llopis A. , Najera E. , Terris M. The Challenge of Epidemiology. Washington: Pan American Health Organization, 1988: 18–19

Shah-Kazemi R. Avicenna. London: Hood Hood, 1998

Bradford Hill A.S. The environment and disease; association or causation? Proc R Soc Med 1965; 58: 295

Porter R. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. London: Harper Collins, 1997

World Health Organization. Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19–22 June 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the WHO, No. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948 [www.who.int/about/definition/en/]

White P. , ed. Biopsychosocial Medicine: an Integrated Approach to Understanding Illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 [242 pp; ISBN 0-19-53034-X; £70]

Engel G.L. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science 1977; 196: 129–36

Engel G.L. The clinical application of the biopsychosocial model. Am J Psychiatry 1980; 137: 535–43