Download or read book The Age of Stress written by Mark Jackson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. 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 is both a condition and a metaphor.