Family Systems in Medicine

While other texts have represented family practice as deriving its clinical knowledge from existing medical fields, FAMILY SYSTEMS IN MEDICINE considers it a unique field and provides a framework for codifying, organizing, and integrating the vast amount of information on the interactions among family processes and biological systems in health and illness. Contributors to the book, who are senior investigators from biology, medicine, family theory, and anthropology, summarize key concepts, describe and evaluate the most important investigations, and integrate these studies into a single, comprehensive treatise that authoritatively covers the current state of knowledge in this fascinating new field.