Depression and Physical Illness

Part I. Introduction to Depression and its Determinants: 1. Depression in the medically ill Francis Creed and Chris Dickens; 2. Psychosocial factors, depression and illness Stephen Stansfeld and Farhat Rasul; Part II. Depression and Specific Health Problems: 3. Depression and the development of coronary heart disease Andrew Steptoe; 4. Depression and prognosis in cardiac patients Heather Lett, Andrew Sherwood, Lana Watkins and James Blumenthal; 5. The management of depression in patients with coronary heart disease Robert Carney and Kenneth Freedland; 6. Depression and physical disability Brenda Penninx; 7. Chronic pain and depression: twin burdens of adaptation Christina Van Puymbroeck, Alex Zautra and Peter-Panagioti Harakas; 8. The interrelationship of depression and diabetes Dominique L. Musselman, Angela Bowling, Natalie Gilles, Hannah Larsen, Ephi Betan and Lawrence S. Phillips; 9. Depression and chronic fatigue Peter D. White; 10. Cancer and depression Alice E. Simon, Steven C. Palmer and James C. Coyne; 11. Depression and obesity Lucy Cooke and Jane Wardle; Part III. Biological and behavioural processes; 12. Inflammation, sickness behaviour, and depression Robert Dantzer, Nathalie Castanon, Jacques Lestage, Maite Moreau and Lucile Capuron; 13. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: cortisol, DHEA, mental and behavioural function Ian Goodyer; 14. Depression and immunity: biological and behavioral mechanisms Michael Irwin; 15. Smoking and depression Jon D. Kassel and Benjamin L. Hankin; 16. Depression and physical activity Andrew Steptoe; 17. Adherence to medical advice Douglas A Raynor, Rena R. Wing and Suzanne Phelan; Part IV. Conclusions: 18. Integrating clinical with biobehavioural studies of depression and illness Andrew Steptoe.