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Behavioral Medicine: Work, Stress and Health

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. W. Doyle Gentry

    1. Psychological Associates of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, USA
      Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, University of Virginia, USA

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  2. Herbert Benson

    1. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, USA

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  3. Charles J. Wolff

    1. Workgroup on Psychology of Work and Organization, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series D: (ASID, volume 19)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Behavioral Medicine: A Mandate for Integrated Research

    • W. Doyle Gentry
    Pages 1-13

  3. Stress, Health, and the Relaxation Response

    • Herbert Benson
    Pages 15-32

  4. Stress and Strain in the Work Environment: Does It Lead to Illness?

    • Charles J. de Wolff
    Pages 33-43

  5. Psychosocial Coronary Risk Constellations in the Work Setting

    • Johannes Siegrist
    Pages 45-79

  6. Relationships Between Critical Life Events, Job Stress, and Cardiovascular Illness

    • Tores Theorell
    Pages 81-99

  7. Type A Behavior Pattern

    • Marcel Kornitzer
    Pages 101-139

  8. Type A Behavior Pattern and The Anal-Obsessive Time Attitude

    • Jacques A. M. Winnubst
    Pages 141-156

  9. Barriers to Work Stress: I. Social Support

    • James S. House
    Pages 157-180

  10. Barriers to Work Stress: II. The Hardy Personality

    • Suzanne C. Kobasa
    Pages 181-204

  11. Anger Management and Work Stress: Healthy and Unhealthy Styles

    • W. Doyle Gentry
    Pages 205-217

  12. Reducing Coronary Risk in Occupationally Successful Type A Men

    • Ethel Roskies
    Pages 219-239

  13. Stress Intervention at the Organizational Level

    • Charles J. de Wolff
    Pages 241-252

  14. Stress Management at Work: The New York Telephone Experiment

    • Gilbeart H. Collings Jr.
    Pages 253-268

  15. A Behavioral Approach to Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

    • Chandra Patel
    Pages 269-314

  16. The Broader Issue — Health-Care Management at the Individual And Systems Level

    • Gilbeart H. Collings Jr
    Pages 315-322

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 323-323
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`It provides a much needed, integrated state-of-the-art appraisal of the impact of work stress on health, along with a `balance sheet approach' for alleviating stress-strain in industrialized societies.'
IDIS (1997)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Psychological Associates of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, USA

    W. Doyle Gentry

  • Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, University of Virginia, USA

    W. Doyle Gentry

  • Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, USA

    Herbert Benson

  • Workgroup on Psychology of Work and Organization, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Charles J. Wolff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behavioral Medicine: Work, Stress and Health

  • Editors: W. Doyle Gentry, Herbert Benson, Charles J. Wolff

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series D:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5179-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3264-7Due: 31 January 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8792-6Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5179-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-123X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 344

  • Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology

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