We are living in a stressful world. Despite our familiarity with
the notion, stress remains an elusive concept. In The Age of
Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of
stress in the modern world. In particular, he reveals how the
science that legitimates and fuels current anxieties about stress
has been shaped by a wide range of socio-political and cultural, as
well as biological, factors: stress, he argues, is both a condition
and a metaphor. This approach is not designed or intended to deny
the reality of stress in people's lives, or to undermine the
validity of scientific investigations. Rather, Jackson suggests
that if we are to comprehend the ubiquity and impact of stress in
our own times, or to explain how stress has commandeered such a
central place in the modern imagination, we need to understand not
only the evolution of the medical science and technology that has
gradually uncovered the biological pathways between stress and
disease in recent decades, but also the shifting political and
cultural contexts that have invested that scientific knowledge with
meaning and authority. In particular, he argues that we need to
acknowledge the manner in which our obsessions with the
relationship between stress and disease are the product of broader
historical concerns about the preservation of personal and
political, as well as physiological, stability.
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