Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society

1. Introduction: What Does the Social Construction of Stress Mean?' Marc Loriol.- 2. "Elective Affinities" and Development of "Normal Science": What Kind of Regulation? The Example of Hans Selye (1907-1981); Guillame Lecoeur.- 3. Epidemiological Transition and the Emergence of Mental Discomfort: The Case of Work Stress; Ari Väänänen and Pekka Varje.- 4. How Much Do You Suffer?: The Performativity of Scientific Scales of Work-Related Suffering; Florence Allard-Poesi and Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert..- 5. The Discourse of Stress: Individual Pathology or Communal Ritual; Sheila McNamee. -6. The Different Dimensions of the Social Construction Process; Marc Loriol.- 7. The Problem of Work Stress and the Need to Re-imagine the Bio-Psycho-Social Model; David Wainwright and Elaine Wainwright.- 8. Understanding Stress as a Form of Institutional Maintenance and Disruption Work; Penny Dick.- 9. Burnout in Quebec: Behind Psychological Suffering, Shifting in Social Representation and Relation to Work.- 10. General Conclusion; Marc Loriol.