Stress: Evolutionary, Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Long-term Responses to Physical Stress: Evidence from the Fossil Record; P.R.Sheldon - Environmental Stress and Evolutionary Adaptation; R.J.Berry -The Galton Lecture for 1994: From Energy Budgets to Adaptive Limits Under Stress: Sexual Ornaments, Senescence, and Outlier Human Populations; P.A.Parsons - Population Differences in Blood Pressure Genes; N.D.Carter - Sub-Threshold Effects of Maternal Alcohol Consumption on Craniodental Development; J.A.Kieser - The Assessment of Stress in Traditional Societies; L.H.Schmitt - Stress, Gender and Leadership; M.Frankenhaeuser - Stress, Work, and Health: the Role of Individual Differences; K.R.Parkes - Stress in Hospital Patients; J.Wilson-Barnett - Cardiovascular Disease and Stress: from Aetiology to Intervention; A.Steptoe - Psychosocial Stress and Cancer; H.J.Eysenck - Index