Stress : the causes, the costs and the cures : the science and politics of a global crisis / John Merson.
By: Merson, John.
Contributor(s): Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Publisher: Sydney : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001Description: xv, 192 p. : ill. ; 22cm.ISBN: 0733309186 (pbk.); 9780733309182 (pbk.).Subject(s): Stress (Psychology) | Stress managementDDC classification: 155.9042Item type | Current location | Shelf location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes index.
The biology of stress -- Social and psychological stress -- Traumatic stress -- Culture and stress -- The politics of stress.
In 1999 a World Health Organisation study concluded that heart disease and depression were the most prevalent illnesses confronting the world. The most common cause of these two diseases is stress. In this book, Merson investigates this hard-to-pin-down factor. Four part TV series will screen in early 2001.