Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evaluating the role of Hans Selye in the modern history of stress / Mark Jackson -- Stress and the American vernacular : popular perception s of disease causality / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- Resilience for all by the year 20? / Allan Young -- From primitive fear to civilized stre ss : sudden unexpected death / Otniel E. Dror -- Stress in US wartime p sychiatry : World War II and the immediate aftermath / Theodore M. Brow n -- The machinery and the morale : physiological and psychological app roaches to military stress research in the early Cold War era / Tulley Long -- Making sense of workplace fear : the role of physicians, psychi atrists, and labor in reframing occupational strain in industrial Brita in, ca. 1850-1970 / Joseph Melling -- Work, stress, and depression : th e emerging psychiatric science of work in contemporary Japan / Junko Ki tanaka -- The invention of the 'stressed animal' and the development of a science of animal welfare, 1947-86 / Robert G. W. Kirk -- Memorial's stress : Arthur M. Sutherland and the management of the cancer patient in the 1950s / David Cantor -- Stress in the city : mental health, urb an planning, and the social sciences in the postwar United States / Edm und Ramsden -- Sadness in Camberwell : imagining stress and constructin g history in postwar Britain / Rhodri Hayward.