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Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field integrating basic research and applications from behavioral and biomedical sciences that are relevant to problems of physical medicine. The behavioral sciences involved are psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics. In addition to the basic biomedical sciences, epidemiology and clinical observations are involved.
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Miller, N.E. (1989). Behavioral Medicine. In: Abnormal States of Brain and Mind. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6768-8_11
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