Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here ‎'‎A fantastic contribution to health psychology‎.‎ My PhD students and medical students are instructed to read it ‎(‎not often I recommend books these days‎)‎‎.‎ It feels like the field has been waiting for this for a long time‎'‎ ‎- Dr Lis Cordingley Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology‎,‎ School of Medicine‎,‎ University of Manchester An engaging introduction to the interrelationships between mind and body across a broad range of topics including infectious illness‎,‎ autoimmunity‎,‎ cancer and pain‎.‎ Taking a biopsychosocial approach‎,‎ it brings together research from a number of disciplines including health psychology‎,‎ psychoneuroimmunology and behavioural genetics‎.‎ Students are encouraged to consider how advances in psychobiological research can help us to uncover the true complexity of links between psychological‎,‎ biological and social processes with respect to implications for health and how such advances can inform the development of interventions and treatment‎.‎