Troubled by life : the experience of stress in twentieth-century Britain

In this thesis I explore how people conceptualised, explained and managed their experiences of everyday stress before the concept became ubiquitous. In doing so, I reveal some of the factors which contributed to that ultimate ubiquity. The existing historiography of stress comes mostly from a medica...

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Main Author: Kirby, Fiona Jillian
Published: University of Sussex 2014
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900
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629049