One nation under stress : the trouble with stress as an idea / / Dana Becker
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| Autore: |
Becker Dana
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| Titolo: |
One nation under stress : the trouble with stress as an idea / / Dana Becker
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 155.9/0420973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Stress (Psychology) |
| Stress management - 21st century | |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Stress: The New Black Death?; Chapter 2 Getting and Spending: The Wear and Tear of Modern Life; Chapter 3 Stress and the Biopolitics of American Society; Chapter 4 Mars and Venus Stress Out, Naturally; Chapter 5 The Other Mommy War: Stress and the Working Mother; Chapter 6 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the War for Mental Health; Chapter 7 Afterword: Vulnerability Reexamined; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Stress has long been considered the price Americans must pay for their way of life. Analyzing and interpreting both popular and academic accounts of stress in cultural terms, this book follows the development of the stress concept into an important vehicle for defining, expressing and containing middle-class anxieties. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | One nation under stress |
| ISBN: | 0-19-997178-1 |
| 0-19-997177-3 | |
| 0-19-025843-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819459803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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