Cary L. Cooper, Philip Dewe

Broschiertes Buch

Stress

A Brief History

Beschreibung

Stress: A Brief History is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the field of stress research.
First concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the origins of the concept of stress.
Explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general adaptation syndrome.
Discusses the work and intriguing contributions of key researchers in the field such as Walter Cannon, Hans Selye, Harold Wolff, and Richard Lazarus.
Explains the origins of key concepts in stress such as stressful life events, the coronary-prone personality, and appraisals and coping.
Culminates in a discussion of what makes a good theory and what obligations stress researchers have to those whose working lives they study.

Autor

Gwen Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat; Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat; My Life in a Cat House; and Spray Anything: More True Tales of Homer and the Gang, as well as the novel Love Saves the Day (narrated from a rescue cat's perspective) and PAWSOME! Head Bonks, Raspy Tongues, and 101 Reasons Why Cats Make Us So, So Happy--among numerous other titles. Gwen's work has been published in more than two-dozen languages, and she is a frequent speaker at shelter fundraisers across the U.S. and Europe. Gwen lives in New Jersey with her husband, Laurence. She also lives with her two perfect cats--Clayton "the Tripod" and his litter-mate, Fanny--who aren't impressed with any of it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9781405107457
• ISBN-10: 1405107456
• Artikelnr.: 13586402

Rezensionen

"Mental health problems and stress-related disorders are often thecause of early death. Cary Cooper's and Philip Dewe's book is afascinating and highly readable account of the long and difficultjourney to this insight. I recommend it strongly." Lennart Levi,MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Division of Stress Research,Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

"an informative and concise summary of landmarks in the historyof stress research, with themes originating from over a hundredyears of contributions to the field ... this book carries more thanenough information for one to appreciate the origins of an excitingand necessary field." Andi Yi-An Shih, Ph.D. Candidate,University of British Colombia. Stress and Health, 20, 239-40,2004

"This must be the definitive book on the history of stress,written by specialists in organisational psychology andbehaviour...Work stress is given a chapter on its own , and theconclusion asks what we mean by stress and how research on thetopic can be pursued." Scientific and Medical Network Review,Summer 2005