Table of Contents

Foreword; Part I. General Principles: 1. Conducting a field study of stress: general principles Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice; Part II. Measuring Stress Responses: 2. Cultural fimensions of the dtress process: measurement issues in fieldwork William Dressler; 3. Measuring the emotional and behavioral response to stressors Gillian H. Ice; 4. Measuring hormonal variation in the sympathetic adrenal medullary system: catecholamines Daniel Brown; 5. Measuring hormonal variation in the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA): cortisol Tessa Pollard and Gillian H. Ice; 6. Measuring physiological changes in the cardiovascular system: ambulatory blood pressure Gary D James; 7. Measuring immunological markers Thomas W. McDade; Part III. Practical Issues in Studying Stress: 8. Special populations Sharon R. Williams; 9. Study design and data analysis Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice; 10. Ethics in human subjects research Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice; 11. Epilogue: summary and future directions Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice.

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Originally published in 2006, this book provides in-depth guidelines for designing a field project on stress.

About the Author

Gillian H. Ice is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University of Osteopathic Medicine. Gary D. James is Director of the Institute for Primary and Preventative Health Care, and Professor of Nursing and Anthropology at Binghamton University.

Reviews

'... this practical state-of-the-art guide is recommendable for all those, who are involved in non-invasive methods for measuring the biological responses to stress in field settings.' Anthropologischer Anzeiger