LIFE STRESS
Subtitle: Volume III  Of A Companion To The Life Sciences
Contributors: Mitzi L. Duxbury; Nelson Hendler; Yujiro Ikemi; Richard Levere; Fernando Lolas
Series: Third Volume of A Companion To The Life Sciences
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780442262945
Subjects: Life Sciences; Biology; Science
Genres: Medicine; Behavioral Sciences; Biopsychosocial Health
Work titles: ISBN 0-442-22010-3 (vol.I); ISBN 0-442-25163-7 (v.2) INTEGRATED MEDICINE; ISBN 0-442-26294-9(v.3) LIFE 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).
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.
Notes: Book is dedicated to Professor Hans Selye. Frontispiece photo of  Hans Selye.Complete and detailed Index.Emphasises importance of biopsychosocial approach to good health.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: I
title: Basic Science
pagenum: 3; label: II
title: Stress And Life Event Territories
pagenum: 71; label: III
title: Life Stress And the Person (Humanism)
pagenum: 183; label: IV
title: Life Stress, The Child, The Woman, and the Family
pagenum: 221; label: V
title: Stress and Sociological Parameters
pagenum: 285; label: VI
title: Stress and Clinical Disease
pagenum: 317