The Age of Stress
Jackson, Mark (Professor of the History of Medicine, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter)![The Age of Stress](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22670910/CHSBZCOP0322670910.jpg)
An exploration of the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. 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 is both a condition and a metaphor.