04815cam a22007931 4500 stressoflife00sely CaSfIA 20250801222224.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 751126s1956 nyua ob 000 0 eng 56013402 (OCoLC)1036945857 DLC WRJ DLC CMC GMS YUS MQM B2Q NLGGC BTCTA NLM OCLCG AU@ CVM DEBBG CaSfIA 12821160R DNLM 0070562067 : 3.95 9780070562066 QP356 .S44 QZ 160 S469s 1956 612.0144 44.91 bcl CP 3500 rvk Selye, Hans, 1907- The stress of life. New York, McGraw-Hill [1956] 1 online resource (324 pages illustrations) Includes bibliography. Also issued online. Preface -- Book I: The discovery of stress -- Precursors of the stress concept -- My first glimpse of stress -- How to question nature -- The birth of the G.A.S. -- Book II: The dissection of stress -- Why did we need a blueprint for the dissection? -- Inventory of assets: (a) the facts -- Inventory of assets: (b) the abstractions -- Inventory of assets: (c) materials and techniques -- How does one dissect a biologic mechanism? -- Results of the dissection -- Stress in a nutshell -- Stress and inflammation -- Synoptic view of the whole stress-mechanism -- Book III: The diseases of adaptation -- Diseases of the kidney, the heart, and the blood vessels -- Inflammatory diseases -- Other diseases -- "When scientists disagree" -- Book IV: Sketch for a unified theory -- The search for unification -- How could the stress concept lead to a more unified interpretation of biology and medicine? -- Apologia for teleologic thought in biology and medicine -- Book V: Implications and applications -- Medical implications of the stress concept -- Psychosomatic implications -- Philosophic implications -- The road ahead. Stress (Physiology) Stress. Stress. Adaptation (Physiologie) Stress. gtt Medizin. swd Stress. swd Online version: Selye, Hans, 1907- Stress of life. New York, McGraw-Hill [1956] (OCoLC)597890662 https://archive.org/details/stressoflife00sely Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6203209M Additional information and access via Open Library stressoflife00sely ark:/13960/t07w75g98