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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Jackson (Professor of the History of Medicine, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.648kg ISBN: 9780199588626ISBN 10: 0199588627 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 28 March 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPrologue: The age of stress 1: The shock of Modernity 2: Adaptation and Disease 3: The Biochemistry of Life 4: The Cathedral of Stress 5: Coping with Stress 6: The Pursuit of Happiness Epilogue: The search for stability Bibliography IndexReviewsMark Jackson skillfully charts the twentieth-century emergence of stress from a range of less distinctive catagories, including anxiety and overwork, into a discrete, sometimes contested and controversial, diagnosis. ... Age of Stress is an exemplary contribution to the historiography of modern psychology, psychiatry, disease and illness. ... Further to being a significant addition to the history of twentieth-century medicine, The Age of Stress will prove invaluable to social and economic historians of the modern period. Ian Miller, British Journal for the History of Science Mark Jackson skillfully charts the twentieth-century emergence of stress from a range of less distinctive catagories, including anxiety and overwork, into a discrete, sometimes contested and controversial, diagnosis. ... Age of Stress is an exemplary contribution to the historiography of modern psychology, psychiatry, disease and illness. ... Further to being a significant addition to the history of twentieth-century medicine, The Age of Stress will prove invaluable to social and economic historians of the modern period. Ian Miller, British Journal for the History of Science Jackson argues that stress is the emblematic medical but also cultural condition, not just of our own age, but of modern times. In doing so, he juxtaposes a carefully told story of how medical science developed a theory of stress to make sense of keeping bodies and minds in healthy balance, with a story of how stress as a metaphor came to be deployed in popular culture and in thinking about political stability, economic security, and even the harmony of the cosmos ... The Age of Stress may invite not just a series of more detailed case studies but also a study of even greater ambition. This is a mark of its considerable achievement. Mathew Thomson, Social History of Medicine Author InformationMark Jackson is Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter. He has served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Committee, Chair of the Wellcome Trust Research Resources Funding Committee, and Senior Academic Adviser (Medical Humanities) to the Wellcome Trust. He was a member of the History Panel for REF 2014 and has taught modules in the history of medicine and science for thirty years. His books include New-born Child Murder (1996), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Health and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), Asthma: The Biography (2009), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (ed., 2011), The History of Medicine: A Beginner's Guide (2014), and The Routledge History of Disease (ed., 2016). He is currently writing a book on the history of the midlife crisis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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