Stress and Poverty: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Stress in Cells, Individuals, and Society Breitenbach Michael
Stress and Poverty: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Stress in Cells, Individuals, and Society Breitenbach Michael The word stress is everywhere and highly overused. Looking into the meaning of…
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Stress and Poverty: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Stress in Cells, Individuals, and Society Breitenbach Michael
The word stress is everywhere and highly overused. Looking into the meaning of stress in the natural science and the humanities, this book explores cellular stress as cause of and in correlation with what humans experience as stress. Everyone is stressed, it seems, all the time.
It can be created by social or economic factors and become chronic, which has substantial impacts on the individual and society as a whole. When do we psychologically feel stress and when do we show physiological evidence of stress in our brain?Stress is a deviation from what feels normal and healthy. Focusing on poverty as one chronic inducer of stress, this book explores how the lack of pressure-free time, the hardships and unpredictability of everyday life and a general lack of protection lead to destructive toxic stress.
This pressure affects cognitive and social functioning, brain