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The age of stress : science and the search for stability
- Title
- The age of stress : science and the search for stability / Mark Jackson.
- Author
- Jackson, Mark, 1959-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 311 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. In particular, he reveals 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: stress, he argues, is both a condition and a metaphor. This approach is not designed or intended to deny the reality of stress in people's lives, or to undermine the validity of scientific investigations. Rather, Jackson suggests that if we are to comprehend the ubiquity and impact of stress in our own times, or to explain how stress has commandeered such a central place in the modern imagination, we need to understand not only the evolution of the medical science and technology that has gradually uncovered the biological pathways between stress and disease in recent decades, but also the shifting political and cultural contexts that have invested that scientific knowledge with meaning and authority. In particular, he argues that we need to acknowledge the manner in which our obsessions with the relationship between stress and disease are the product of broader historical concerns about the preservation of personal and political, as well as physiological, stability.--Publisher
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-299) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-6329
- ISBN
- 9780199588626
- 0199588627
- OCLC
- 818450008
- Author
- Jackson, Mark, 1959-
- Title
- The age of stress : science and the search for stability / Mark Jackson.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-299) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6329