The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability
An exploration of the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. 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 is both a condition and a metaphor.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958862-6
- EAN: 9780199588626
- Produktnummer: 22183201
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.7 cm 636 g
- Gewicht: 636
Über den Autor
Mark Jackson is Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter. He has served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Committee, Chair of the Wellcome Trust Research Resources Funding Committee, and Senior Academic Adviser (Medical Humanities) to the Wellcome Trust. He was a member of the History Panel for REF 2014 and has taught modules in the history of medicine and science for thirty years. His books include New-bornChild Murder (1996), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Health and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), Asthma: The Biography (2009), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (ed., 2011), The History of Medicine: A Beginner's Guide (2014), and The RoutledgeHistory of Disease (ed., 2016). He is currently writing a book on the history of the midlife crisis.
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