This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s.

Introduction
Evaluating the Role of Hans Selye in the Modern History of Stress
Stress and the American Vernacular: Popular Perceptions of Disease Causality
Resilience for All by the Year 20-
From Primitive Fear to Civilized Stress: Sudden Unexpected Death
"Stress" in US Wartime Psychiatry: World War II and the Immediate Aftermath
The Machinery and the Morale: Physiological and Psychological Approaches to Military Stress Research in the Early Cold War Era
Making Sense of Workplace Fear: The Role of Physicians, Psychiatrists, and Labor in Reframing Occupational Strain in Industrial Britain, ca. 1850-1970
Work, Stress, and Depression: The Emerging Psychiatric Science of Work in Contemporary Japan
The Invention of the "Stressed Animal" and the Development of a Science of Animal Welfare, 1947-86
Memorial's Stress? Arthur M. Sutherland and the Management of the Cancer Patient in the 1950s
Stress in the City: Mental Health, Urban Planning, and the Social Sciences in the Postwar United States
Sadness in Camberwell: Imagining Stress and Constructing History in Postwar Britain