TY - BOOK AU - Merson,John ED - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. TI - Stress: the causes, the costs and the cures : the science and politics of a global crisis SN - 0733309186 (pbk.) U1 - 155.9042 PY - 2001/// CY - Sydney PB - ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation KW - Stress (Psychology) KW - Stress management N1 - Includes index; The biology of stress -- Social and psychological stress -- Traumatic stress -- Culture and stress -- The politics of stress N2 - 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 ER -