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The Age of Stress

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Age of Stress

By Mark Jackson

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About the book

We are living in a stressful world, yet despite our familiarity with the notion, stress remains an elusive concept. In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. In particular, he 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, he argues, is both a conditionand a metaphor. In order to understand t...Show more

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9780198794530

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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The Age of Stress

Format

Paperback

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