Handbook of Stress Medicine
Subtitle: An Organ System Approach
Contributors: John R. Hubbard (Editor); Edward A. Workman (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: October 24, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780849325151
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Trauma & shock; Stress Management; Psychiatry - General; Psychosomatic Medicine; Stress (Psychology); Medical / Nursing; Psychology; Stress (Physiology); Infectious Diseases; Medical / Psychiatry; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Stress, Psychological; Clinical Psychology; Medicine, Psychosomatic
First sentence: The purpose of this chapter is to provide background information about stress, homeostasis, stressors, adaptation, how stress impacts organ systems distant from the brain, difficulties in stress research and the importance of stress to the field of medicine.