Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century

This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s.

List of contents

Introduction
Evaluating the Role of Hans Selye in the Modern History of Stress
Stress and the American Vernacular: Popular Perceptions of Disease Causality
Resilience for All by the Year 20-
From Primitive Fear to Civilized Stress: Sudden Unexpected Death
"Stress" in US Wartime Psychiatry: World War II and the Immediate Aftermath
The Machinery and the Morale: Physiological and Psychological Approaches to Military Stress Research in the Early Cold War Era
Making Sense of Workplace Fear: The Role of Physicians, Psychiatrists, and Labor in Reframing Occupational Strain in Industrial Britain, ca. 1850-1970
Work, Stress, and Depression: The Emerging Psychiatric Science of Work in Contemporary Japan
The Invention of the "Stressed Animal" and the Development of a Science of Animal Welfare, 1947-86
Memorial's Stress? Arthur M. Sutherland and the Management of the Cancer Patient in the 1950s
Stress in the City: Mental Health, Urban Planning, and the Social Sciences in the Postwar United States
Sadness in Camberwell: Imagining Stress and Constructing History in Postwar Britain

About the author

David Cantor, Edmund Ramsden

Summary

This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: David Cantor, Edmund Ramsden
• Assisted by: David Cantor (Editor), David (Author) Cantor (Editor), Dr. David (Customer) Cantor (Editor), Edmund Ramsden (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2014
• EAN: 9781580464765
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-476-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 712 g
• Series: University of Rochester Press; Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General