Stress - A Brief History

This must be the definitive book on the history of stress, written by specialists in organisational psychology and behaviour. It traces the origin of the term in engineering during the 18th and 19th centuries then moves on to the classic 20th century studies by Walter Cannon, Hans Selye and Harold Wolff. New scales and measurements came in during the 1950s and the field was then taken forward by Richard Lazarus with his concepts of appraisal and coping. Work stress is given a chapter on its own, and the conclusion asks what we mean by stress and how research on the topic