Stress And Its Relationship To Health And Illness
Author | : Linas A Bieliauskas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781000313369 |
ISBN-13 | : 1000313360 |
Rating | : 4/5 (360 Downloads) |
Download or read book Stress And Its Relationship To Health And Illness written by Linas A Bieliauskas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To discuss the relationship between stress and health status, it is first necessary to define the term "stress." This is not a mundane issue, because the term "stress" is popularly used to refer to a wide range of physiological changes, psychological states, and environmental pressures in the health/illness literature. Stress was first described as a biological syndrome by Selye (1936, p. 32): Experiments on rats show that if the organism is severely damaged by acute non-specific nocuous agents such as exposure to cold, surgical injury, production of spinal shock ... a typical syndrome appears, the symptoms of which are independent of the nature of the damaging agent ... and represent rather a response to damage as such.