George S. Everly, Jr. ● Jeffrey M. Lating

2013

Third Edition

The idea for our original volume fi rst arose in 1979. At that time, the study of human stress was by no means new. More than four decades earlier, the brilliant endocrinologist Hans Selye had coined the term “stress” and along with Harvard’s Walter Cannon had pioneered the study of its then perplexing physiology. John Mason, at Yale, had not only expanded the work of Selye and Cannon but also offered a heuristic formulation that made the physiology, especially the endocrinology, of stress accessible to even the non-physiologist.