ECOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS, LIFE EXPERIENCES AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
Authors: L E HINKLE, H G WOLFF
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1958)

Article1 December 1958ECOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS, LIFE EXPERIENCES AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTLAWRENCE E. HINKLE JR., M.D., HAROLD G. WOLFF, M.D., F.A.C.P.LAWRENCE E. HINKLE JR., M.D., HAROLD G. WOLFF, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-49-6-1373 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptBy the beginning of the present decade there was enough clinical and experimental evidence to establish the fact that a man's reactions to the situations that he encounters in his daily life may affect a great number of his internal processes. In effect, it was clear that any bodily function subject to the regulation of the central nervous system might be influenced to a significant degree, and that the regulatory influences of the central nervous system might be mediated directly by way of the neural pathways or internal secretions, or indirectly by way of changes in the over-all behavior of...Bibliography1. HinkleWolff LEHG: The nature of man's adaptation to his total environment and the relation of this to illness, Arch. Int. Med. 99: 442, 1957. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. HinklePinskyBrossPlummer LERHIDN: The distribution of sickness disability in a homogeneous group of "healthy adult men," Am. J. Hyg. 64: 220, 1956. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. 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HinkleOstfeldBenjaminChristensonRichterKaneGittingerGoldbergerThetfordLeichterPinskyWolff LEABWNPFDJWLWNHRHG: An investigation of the relation between life experience, personality characteristics, and general susceptibility to illness, Psychosom. Med. 20: 278, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N. Y.*Presented at the Thirty-ninth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 30, 1958.From the Study Program in Human Health and the Ecology of Man, and the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N. Y.These studies were supported by grants from The Society for The Investigation of Human Ecology, and from The U. S. Public Health Service Grant M-1531 (C1).Requests for reprints should be addressed to Lawrence E. Hinkle, Jr., M.D., The New York Hospital, 525 East Sixty-Eighth Street, New York 21, N. Y. 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Studies of Culture Change 1 December 1958Volume 49, Issue 6Page: 1373-1388KeywordsCentral nervous systemEcologyGeneticsHuman sexual behaviorMedical services ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1958 PDF downloadLoading ...