The age of stress: science and the search for stability
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Main Author: Jackson, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013
Series:Oxford historical monographs
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
An exploration of the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world, revealing how the science that legitimates and fuels current anxieties about stress has been shaped by a wide range of socio-political and cultural, as well as biological factors
Prologue : the age of stress -- The shock of modernity -- Adaptation and disease -- The biochemistry of life -- The cathedral of stress -- Coping with stress -- The pursuit of happiness -- Epilogue : the search for stability
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 311 pages)
ISBN:0191641138
0199588627
1299356052
9780191641138
9780199588626
9781299356054