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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191641138
  • 9780191750779
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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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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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