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

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Oxford historical monographs
	Oxford historical monographs.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Contents	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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Subject	Stress (Psychology)
	Stress (Psychology)
	Stress (Physiology)
	Stress (Physiology)
	Science and psychology.
	Science and psychology.
	Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation.
	Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Jackson, Mark, 1959- Age of stress. 1st ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199588626 (OCoLC)818450008
ISBN	9780191641138 (electronic book)
	0191641138 (electronic book)
	9781299356054 (MyiLibrary)
	1299356052 (MyiLibrary)
	9780199588626
	0199588627