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Stress, Health, and the Social Environment

A Sociobiologic Approach to Medicine

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1977

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  1. J. P. Henry

    1. Department of Physiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. P. M. Stephens

    1. Department of Physiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine (TEPHY)

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. A historical introduction and theoretical concept

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 1-18

  3. Basic patterns of social interaction

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 19-39

  4. Inherited behavioral patterns as social assets

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 40-56

  5. The Critical Role of Early Experience and the Programming of Behavior

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 57-68

  6. Monitoring behavioral disturbances in experimental social systems

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 69-91

  7. The role of the neocortex and the limbic system in social interaction

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 92-117

  8. Neuroendocrine responses to social interaction

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 118-140

  9. Functional and structural changes in response to psychosocial stimulation

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 141-166

  10. Production of disease in animals by psychosocial stimulation

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 167-188

  11. Pathophysiologic consequences of human social disturbance

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 189-217

  12. The prevention and treatment of detrimental effects in the psychosocial environment

    • J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens
    Pages 218-244

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-282
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The mastery of a variety of biomedical They avoided the self-destruction and dis­ techniques has led our society to the solu­ ease that can so readily follow the escalation tion of the problems in environmental con­ of social disorder in an isolated colony. By trol imposed by space flight. By an unparal­ following a "code of civility" that may be as leled social cooperative effort, man has much a part of man's biologic inheritance as launched himself successfully on the path of his speech, they established cultures in interplanetary exploration and space travel. which power was exercised with sufficient By a like synthesis of knowledge available to respect to establish a consensus. They fol­ him, Stone Age man kept a foothold on tiny lowed revered cultural canons, using an Pacific atolls for the better part of a thousand accumulation of rational empiric data from years, despite obliterating hurricanes and social experience to modify and control the inherited biogrammar. This we often fail to limited resources. By combining empiric do. There is growing evidence that it is phys­ navigational skills, such as the sighting of stars with intuitive feeling for ocean swells iologically possible for the left hemisphere of and other subtle cues, tiny populations were the brain, which deals with logic and lan­ maintained in communication over vast dis­ guage, to be cut off from the right hemi­ tances.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

    J. P. Henry, P. M. Stephens

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