Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century
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376 Pages

22.8 x 15.2 cm

3 b/w illus.

Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History

Series Vol. Number: 28

Imprint: University of Rochester Press

Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century

Edited by David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden

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This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s.

Stress is one of the most widely utilized medical concepts in modern society. Originally used to describe physiological responses to trauma, it is now applied in a variety of other fields and contexts, such as in the constructionand expression of personal identity, social relations, building and engineering, and the various complexities of the competitive capitalist economy. In addition, scientists and medical experts use the concept to explore the relationship between an ever-increasing number of environmental stressors and the evolution of an expanding range of mental and chronic organic diseases, such as hypertension, gastric ulcers, arthritis, allergies, and cancer.
Thisedited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence and development of the stress concept and its definitions as they have changed over time. It examines how stress and closely related concepts have been used to connect disciplines such as architecture, ecology, physiology, psychiatry, psychology, public health, urban planning, and a range of social sciences; its application in different settings such as the battlefield, workplace, clinic, hospital, and home; and the advancement of techniques of stress management in a number of different national, sociocultural, 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 Institutesof Health. Edmund Ramsden is Wellcome Trust University Award Research Fellow at the School of History, Queen Mary, University of London.
Introduction
Evaluating the Role of Hans Selye in the Modern History of Stress
Stress and the American Vernacular: Popular Perceptions of Disease Causality
Resilience for All by the Year 20-
From Primitive Fear to Civilized Stress: Sudden Unexpected Death
"Stress" in US Wartime Psychiatry: World War II and the Immediate Aftermath
The Machinery and the Morale: Physiological and Psychological Approaches to Military Stress Research in the Early Cold War Era
Making Sense of Workplace Fear: The Role of Physicians, Psychiatrists, and Labor in Reframing Occupational Strain in Industrial Britain, ca. 1850-1970
Work, Stress, and Depression: The Emerging Psychiatric Science of Work in Contemporary Japan
The Invention of the "Stressed Animal" and the Development of a Science of Animal Welfare, 1947-86
Memorial's Stress? Arthur M. Sutherland and the Management of the Cancer Patient in the 1950s
Stress in the City: Mental Health, Urban Planning, and the Social Sciences in the Postwar United States
Sadness in Camberwell: Imagining Stress and Constructing History in Postwar Britain

DAVID CANTOR, formerly a historian at the National Institutes of Health, is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) within the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

"[A] very good book." ISIS JOURNAL
"Stress, Shock, and Adaptation intersects with earlier studies . . . yet opens out differently the ways in which we can approach the history of emotions, as well as medical understandings of twentieth-century feeling through the category of 'stress.' In doing so the editors and contributors enrich not only our knowledge, but also the ways in which we can conceptualize and investigate emotions in the past." BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
"The editors.are to be congratulated on assembling a diverse collection of essays executed to a high standard of scholarship. will be of great interest to medical historians as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and others studying the topic of stress." HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY
"In this first in-depth collection on stress, editors David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden have assembled scholarship of the highest standard by leading experts in their chosen fields. Stress, Shock, and Adaptation will be of great interest to historians of the human sciences, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and others concerned with the topic of stress. A most welcome contribution." Ruth Leys, Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University
"A valuable collection. . . . Brings further insight on the ways stress-related terms initially proper to psychology and psychiatry . . . [have] evolve[d] to assume new meanings, expand[ing] into adjacent social fields and [becoming] popularized in the public discourse." VESALIUS

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Title Details

376 Pages

2.28 x 1.52 cm

3 b/w illus.

Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History

Series Vol. Number: 28

Imprint: University of Rochester Press