Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1580464769 ISBN 13 : 9781580464765

Editeur : University of Rochester Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 Selye originally focused on nonspecific physiological responses to harmful agents, the stress concept has since been used to examine the relationship between a variety of environmental stressors and mental disorders and chronic organic diseases such as hypertension, gastric ulcers, arthritis, allergies, and cancer.
This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence and development of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions. It examines how the concept has been used to connect disciplines such as ecology, physiology, psychology, psychiatry, public health, urban planning, architecture, and a range of social sciences; its application in a variety of sites such as the battlefield, workplace, clinic, hospital, and home; and the emergence of techniques of stress management in a variety of different socio-cultural and scientific locations.

Contributors: Theodore M. Brown, David Cantor, Otniel E. Dror, Rhodri Hayward, Mark Jackson, Robert G. W. Kirk, Junko Kitanaka, Tulley Long, Joseph Melling, Edmund Ramsden, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, Allan Young.

David Cantor is acting director, Office of History, National Institutes of Health. Edmund Ramsden is Wellcome Trust University Award Research Fellow at the School of History, Queen Mary, University of London.

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À propos de l?auteur

DAVID CANTOR, formerly a historian at the National Institutes of Health, is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) within the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Rochester Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1580464769
• ISBN 13: 9781580464765
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Éditeur: Cantor David, Ramsden Edmund
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