Stress, shock, and adaptation in the twentieth century
The modern concept of stress is commonly traced to the physiologist, Hans Selye. Selye viewed stress as a physiological response to a significant or unexpected change, describing a series of stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion, when an organism's adaptive mechanisms finally failed. While...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer
2014.
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| Colección: | Rochester studies in medical history.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Evaluating the role of Hans Selye in the modern history of stress / Mark Jackson
- Stress and the American vernacular : popular perceptions of disease causality / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
- Resilience for all by the year 20? / Allan Young
- From primitive fear to civilized stress : sudden unexpected death / Otniel E. Dror
- Stress in US wartime psychiatry : World War II and the immediate aftermath / Theodore M. Brown
- The machinery and the morale : physiological and psychological approaches to military stress research in the early Cold War era / Tulley Long
- Making sense of workplace fear : the role of physicians, psychiatrists, and labor in reframing occupational strain in industrial Britain, ca. 1850-1970 / Joseph Melling
- Work, stress, and depression : the emerging psychiatric science of work in contemporary Japan / Junko Kitanaka
- The invention of the 'stressed animal' and the development of a science of animal welfare, 1947-86 / Robert G.W. Kirk
- Memorial's stress : Arthur M. Sutherland and the management of the cancer patient in the 1950s / David Cantor
- Stress in the city : mental health, urban planning, and the social sciences in the postwar United States / Edmund Ramsden
- Sadness in Camberwell : imagining stress and constructing history in postwar Britain / Rhodri Hayward.
