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The Science of Stress: What it is, Why We Feel it, How it Affects Us by Albert Yeung, Ana Ivkovic, Gregory Fricchione (Hardback, 2016)
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33% of Americans and 35% of British people feel they are living with extreme stress. One in five Germans experiences stress on a regular basis. 60% of China' s white-collar workers admit to suffering stress-related issues, and workplace stress costs the Australian ecomy $14.2 billion dollars annually. Stress is a global pandemic that is increasingly proven to be a direct precursor to a large range of n-communicable diseases such as heart disease, ulcers, depression, and abdominal obesity. The Science of Stress is a trustworthy reference of established fact that explains the current scientific understanding of stress in clear concise summary. From why some stress is useful and how one can be sick with nerves, to understanding fear and explaining voodoo death, this book leads the reader through the many obvious and t so obvious ways our stress responses affect our minds and bodies.Product Identifiers
PublisherThe Ivy Press
ISBN-101782404074
ISBN-139781782404071
eBay Product ID (ePID)226726290
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SubjectFamily & Health: General
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorGregory Fricchione, Ana Ivkovic, Albert Yeung
FormatHardback
Dimensions
Height240mm
Width210mm
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication20/10/2016
Place of PublicationLewes
GenreFamily & Health: General
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
Author BiographyGregory Fricchione MD (Massachusetts, USA) (consultant editor) is one of the world's leading stress experts. On the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Psychiatry, he is Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital directing a large staff of attending psychiatrists and psychosomatic medicine fellows taking care of the psychiatric problems of over 5,000 medically and surgically ill patients each year. He is the author of over 140 journal articles and of several books, including Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society (John Hopkins University Press, 2011). He serves on a variety of boards including the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving. In 2006 he became Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, one of the top five research institutes for stress-related illness in the US.
