Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945-85 / / edited by Mark Jackson.

• Superior document: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; Number 23
• Author: Jackson, Mark
• TeilnehmendeR: Jackson, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: London, [England] ;, Brookfield, Vermont : : Pickering & Chatto,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; Number 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Stress in Post-War Britain: An Introduction; 1 From War to Peace: Families Adapting to Change; 2 Families, Stress and Mental Illness in Devon, 1940s to 1970s; 3 Gender, Stress and Alcohol Abuse in Post-War Britain; 4 Working Too Hard: Experiences of Worry and Stress in Post-War Britain; 5 Industrial Automation and Stress, c.1945-79; 6 Cultural Change, Stress and Civil Servants' Occupational Health, c.1967-85; 7 Men and Women under Stress: Neuropsychiatric Models of Resilience during and after the Second World War

8 Stomach for the Peace: Psychosomatic Disorders in UK Veterans and Civilians, 1945-559 Food Allergy, Mental Illness and Stress since 1945; 10 Labouring Stress: Scientific Research, Trade Unions and Perceptions of Workplace Stress in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain; 11 Creating 'The Social': Stress, Domesticity and Attempted Suicide; Notes; Index