Stress, shock, and adaptation in the twentieth century / / edited by David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden.

• Superior document: Rochester studies in medical history,
• Author: Kirk., Robert G.W.
• TeilnehmendeR: Cantor, David, 1957-; Ramsden, Edmund,
• Place / Publishing House: Suffolk : : Boydell & Brewer,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Rochester studies in medical history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 367 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

The modern concept of stress is commonly traced to the physiologist, Hans Selye. Selye viewed stress as a physiological response to a significant or unexpected change, describing a series of stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion, when an organism's adaptive mechanisms finally failed. While Selye originally focused on nonspecific physiological responses to harmful agents, the stress concept has since been used to examine the relationship between a variety of environmental stressors and mental disorders and chronic organic diseases such as hypertension, gastric ulcers, arthritis, allergies, and cancer. This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence and development of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions. It examines how the concept has been used to connect disciplines such as ecology, physiology, psychology, psychiatry, public health, urban planning, architecture, and a range of social sciences; its application in a variety of sites such as the battlefield, workplace, clinic, hospital, and home; and the emergence of techniques of stress management in a variety of different socio-cultural 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 Institutes of Health. Edmund Ramsden is Research Fellow at the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Evaluating the role of Hans Selye in the modern history of stress / Mark Jackson -- Stress and the American vernacular : popular perceptions of disease causality / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- Resilience for all by the year 20? / Allan Young -- From primitive fear to civilized stress : sudden unexpected death / Otniel E. Dror -- Stress in US wartime psychiatry : World War II and the immediate aftermath / Theodore M. Brown -- The machinery and the morale : physiological and psychological approaches to military stress research in the early Cold War era / Tulley Long -- Making sense of workplace fear : the role of physicians, psychiatrists, and labor in reframing occupational strain in industrial Britain, ca. 1850-1970 / Joseph Melling -- Work, stress, and depression : the emerging psychiatric science of work in contemporary Japan / Junko Kitanaka -- The invention of the 'stressed animal' and the development of a science of animal welfare, 1947-86 / Robert G.W. Kirk -- Memorial's stress : Arthur M. Sutherland and the management of the cancer patient in the 1950s / David Cantor -- Stress in the city : mental health, urban planning, and the social sciences in the postwar United States / Edmund Ramsden -- Sadness in Camberwell : imagining stress and constructing history in postwar Britain / Rhodri Hayward.