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- Title: Stress: Sham Epidemic Or Pathway to Ill Health? A Sociological Analysis of a Contested Concept (Report)
- Author : Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 96 KB
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Introduction Stress is 'one of the most pervasive metaphors for personal and collective suffering', according to Helman (2000:202). His insight is illuminating, given the lack of a comprehensive and widely agreed definition of stress (Willemsen and Lloyd 2001:245). Antonovsky usefully reserves the term for 'the strain that remains when the tension [incurred through the experience of stressors] is not successfully overcome' (Antonovsky 1979:3). Helman links Selye's physiological account of stress from the 1930s with earlier medical, lay and religious models of misfortune, and the cultural notion of 'nerves' (Helman 2000:215-216). Finkler has studied the concept of nerves in both Mexico and the USA, and argues that it is a universal experience (1989 cited in Freund 1990:463).