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Michael Murray is Associate Dean of Community Health and Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada.

Murray (social and health psychology, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada) provides a critical overview of debates within health psychology on the nature of the field's underlying theoretical and methodological assumptions, touching on different approaches to the meaning of health and illness, the relevance of socio-economic factors, the importance of gender and culture in health and illness, and different forms of qualitative health research. Contributors in social psychology, nursing, health psychology, and women's studies provide a critique of mainstream health psychology. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR