Behavioral medicine requires understanding of the interactive as well as the independent contributions to disease process made by behavioral/psychological factors; analysis of the mechanisms of association between behavior and disease state (and development of intervention and prevention strategies); and assessment via bioinstrumentation of the range of responses to psychological/environmental challenge as well as resting state values. The carefully reviewed contributions to this handbook detail cardiovascular measurement in the laboratory; measurement issues in physiology and biochemistry; ambulatory monitoring; laboratory tasks, procedures, and non-psychometric subject variables; psychometric assessment, and research designs and statistical concerns. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
