One Nation Under Stress - Becker, Dana (Associate Professor of Social Work, Associate Professor of Social Work, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA)

Stress has long been considered the price Americans must pay for their way of life. Analyzing and interpreting both popular and academic accounts of stress in cultural terms, this book follows the development of the stress concept into an important vehicle for defining, expressing and containing middle-class anxieties.