Stress, shock, and adaptation in the twentieth century / edited by David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.

vi, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evaluating the role of Hans Selye in the modern history of stress / Mark Jackson -- Stress and the American vernacular : popular perceptions of disease causality / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- Resilience for all by the year 20? / Allan Young -- From primitive fear to civilized stress : sudden unexpected death / Otniel E. Dror -- Stress in US wartime psychiatry : World War II and the immediate aftermath / Theodore M. Brown -- The machinery and the morale : physiological and psychological approaches to military stress research in the early Cold War era / Tulley Long -- Making sense of workplace fear : the role of physicians, psychiatrists, and labor in reframing occupational strain in industrial Britain, ca. 1850-1970 / Joseph Melling -- Work, stress, and depression : the emerging psychiatric science of work in contemporary Japan / Junko Kitanaka -- The invention of the 'stressed animal' and the development of a science of animal welfare, 1947-86 / Robert G. W. Kirk -- Memorial's stress : Arthur M. Sutherland and the management of the cancer patient in the 1950s / David Cantor -- Stress in the city : mental health, urban planning, and the social sciences in the postwar United States / Edmund Ramsden -- Sadness in Camberwell : imagining stress and constructing history in postwar Britain / Rhodri Hayward.