Presidential address: Psychosomatic medicine and biodefense preparedness - A new role for the American Psychosomatic Society

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 698-705

  Locke, Steven E ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodefense; Bioterrorism; Outbreak; Pandemic; Public health; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ANTHRAX; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FATIGUE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INSOMNIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL STRESS; MOUTH PAIN; MUSCLE TONE; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; PANIC; PARALYSIS; PARESTHESIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOSOMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RASH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TINGLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEATING; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED STATES; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPLOSION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTORY; LITERATURE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; TELEMEDICINE; TERRORISM; WAR;

AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CULTURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXPLOSIONS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MASS SCREENING; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TELEMEDICINE; TERRORISM; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 33749002526     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000238218.45165.e0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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