The age of stress : science and the search for stability / Mark Jackson.

By:

Jackson, Mark, 1959- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191641138
9780191750779

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

BF575 .A346 2013

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	BF575.75 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn833311434

Includes bibliographies 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.

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