2 Stress and the American Vernacular: Popular Perceptions of Disease Causality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Packaging Stress
6. 1 Evaluating the Role of Hans Selye in the Modern History of Stress 21
7. 2 Stress and the American Vernacular: Popular Perceptions of Disease Causality 49
8. Part Two: Trauma and Acute Stress
9. 3 Resilience for All by the Year 20– 73
10. 4 From Primitive Fear to Civilized Stress: Sudden Unexpected Death 96
11. Part Three: War
12. 5 “Stress” in US Wartime Psychiatry: World War II and the Immediate Aftermath 121
13. 6 The Machinery and the Morale: Physiological and Psychological Approaches to Military Stress Research in the Early Cold War Era 142
14. Part Four: Work
15. 7 Making Sense of Workplace Fear: The Role of Physicians, Psychiatrists, and Labor in Reframing Occupational Strain in Industrial Britain, ca. 1850–1970 189
16. 8 Work, Stress, and Depression: The Emerging Psychiatric Science of Work in Contemporary Japan 222
17. Part Five: Managing Stress
18. 9 The Invention of the “Stressed Animal” and the Development of a Science of Animal Welfare, 1947–86 241
19. 10 Memorial’s Stress? Arthur M. Sutherland and the Management of the Cancer Patient in the 1950s 264
20. Part Six: Surveilling Stress
21. 11 Stress in the City: Mental Health, Urban Planning, and the Social Sciences in the Postwar United States 291
22. 12 Sadness in Camberwell: Imagining Stress and Constructing History in Postwar Britain 320
23. List of Contributors 343
24. Index 347