Why zebras don't get ulcers : an updated guide to stress, stress-related diseases, and coping
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Bibliographic Information
Why zebras don't get ulcers : an updated guide to stress, stress-related diseases, and coping
W.H. Freeman and Co., c1994
- alk. paper
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-414) and index
Second printing, 1998
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using amusing anecdotes to present the scientific facts of stress, the author explains how the nervous system responds to stress and how stress can affect everything from digestion, circulation and cancer growth to sex, mood and aging. The new, updated version includes chapters on stress and poverty, stress and memory, stress and personality and how to cope with stress.
Table of Contents
- Why don't zebras get ulcers
- glands, heart attacks and voodoo death
- stress, metabolism and liquidating your assets
- ulcers, colitis and the runs
- dwarfism and the importance of mothers
- sex and reproduction
- immunity, stress and disease
- stress-induced analgesia
- stress and memory
- ageing and death
- why is psychological stress stressful?
- stress and depression
- personality, temperament and poor stress responses
- the view from the bottom
- managing stress.
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