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OverviewThis edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s. Stress is one of the most widely utilized medical concepts in modern society. Originally used to describe physiological responses to trauma, it is now applied in a variety of other fields and contexts, such as in the constructionand expression of personal identity, social relations, building and engineering, and the various complexities of the competitive capitalist economy. In addition, scientists and medical experts use the concept to explore the relationship between an ever-increasing number of environmental stressors and the evolution of an expanding range of mental and chronic organic diseases, such as hypertension, gastric ulcers, arthritis, allergies, and cancer. Thisedited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence and development of the stress concept and its definitions as they have changed over time. It examines how stress and closely related concepts have been used to connect disciplines such as architecture, ecology, physiology, psychiatry, psychology, public health, urban planning, and a range of social sciences; its application in different settings such as the battlefield, workplace, clinic, hospital, and home; and the advancement of techniques of stress management in a number of different national, sociocultural, 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 Institutesof Health. Edmund Ramsden is Wellcome Trust University Award Research Fellow at the School of History, Queen Mary, University of London. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Cantor (Author) , Edmund RamsdenPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: University of Rochester Press Volume: v. 28 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781580464765ISBN 10: 1580464769 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 28 February 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table 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"ReviewsIn this first in-depth study of stress, editors David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden have assembled scholarship of the highest standard by leading experts in their chosen fields. Stress, Shock, and Adaptation will be of great interest to historians of the human sciences, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and others concerned with the topic of stress. A most welcome contribution. --Ruth Leys, Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University (A) very good book. ISIS JOURNAL Stress, Shock, and Adaptation intersects with earlier studies . . . yet opens out differently the ways in which we can approach the history of emotions, as well as medical understandings of twentieth-century feeling through the category of stress. In doing so the editors and contributors enrich not only our knowledge, but also the ways in which we can conceptualize and investigate emotions in the past. BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE The editors.are to be congratulated on assembling a diverse collection of essays executed to a high standard of scholarship. Stress, Shock and Adaptation will be of great interest to medical historians as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and others studying the topic of stress. HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY In this first in-depth collection on stress, editors David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden have assembled scholarship of the highest standard by leading experts in their chosen fields. Stress, Shock, and Adaptation will be of great interest to historians of the human sciences, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and others concerned with the topic of stress. A most welcome contribution. --Ruth Leys, Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins UniversityBR> A valuable collection. . . . Brings further insight on the ways stress-related terms initiR> A valuable collection. . . . Brings further insight on the ways stress-related terms initially proper to psychology and psychiatry . . . (have) evolve(d) to assume new meanings, expa Author InformationDAVID 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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