LIFE STRESS

Description

Features extensive coverage of all forms of stress and its effect on man. As a reference it provides vital information and aid in the medical field and in fields related to stress disorders It includes issues related to stress as a factor in human evolution; stress and animal models of disease; activation, emotion and stress; basic concepts in psychophysiological personality research; psychosocial stress and illness; biopsychosocial approaches to stress; the community and stress; stress and terrorism as a form of communication; life event changes. A special section is devoted to life stress and its influence on children, women, and families; child abuse; working women on the treadmill; violence against women; geriatric stress; rape victims, and ethnic stress.

First Sentence

Stress and life? The growing inability of health services generally, throughout the world, to deliver better health for more money or to appreciably cure chronic disease, regardless of increasingly sophisticated and expensive technological price tags, continues to point up problems of human happiness and equitable quality of life, in a world of nonpareils and often arbitrary standards.............The notion of life stress, set forth in the papers in this small volume, focusses on the perspective of health and the human being in terms of health communications and biopsychosocial limits. (From Introduction by Stacey B. Day).

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• Medicine