Stress: Evolutionary, Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives

Proceedings of the 1994 Galton Institute conference edited by Alan H. Bittles and Peter A. Parsons, published by Macmillan (now Palgrave Macmillan)

Main contents

1. Long-term Responses to Physical Stress: Evidence from the Fossil Record
Peter R. Sheldon

2. Environmental Stress and Evolutionary Adaptation
R.J. Berry

3. The Galton Lecture for 1994: From Energy Budgets to Adaptive Limits under Stress: Sexual Ornaments, Senescence, and Outlier Human Populations
Peter A. Parsons

4. Population Differences in Blood Pressure Genes
Nicholas D. Carter

5. Sub-threshold Effects of Maternal Alcohol Consumption on Craniodental Development
Jules A. Kieser

6. The Assessment of Stress in Traditional Societies
Lincoln H. Schmitt

7. Stress, Gender and Leadership
Marianne Frankenhaeuser

8. Stress, Work, and Health: the Role of Individual Differences
Katherine R. Parkes

9. Stress in Hospital Patients
Jenifer Wilson-Barnett

10. Cardiovascular Disease and Stress: from Aetiology to Intervention
Andrew Steptoe

11. Psychosocial Stress and Cancer
Hans J. Eysenck

Members of the Institute may buy copies of this book for £10 including postage.  For non-members, it is still available from booksellers, including at the date of writing (January 2006) Tesco for  £61.75, or directly from Palgrave Macmillan for £73.50.  However, it is cheaper to become a member and buy at the members' price.  Brief summaries of the papers can be found in the December 2004 and June 2005 Newsletters.