 In 1972, he helped establish the medical school at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and held the Kunin-Lunenfeld Chair in Medical Sociology.During his twenty years in that Department, Antonovsky developed his theory of health and illness, which he termed salutogenesis.This model was described in his 1979 book, "Health, Stress and Coping", followed by his 1987 work, "Unraveling the Mystery of Health".