Indhold: Response-oriented stress (Virginia Hill Rice: Theories of stress and relationship to health. Linda Witek-Janusek: Stress, immunity, and health outcomes / Linda Witek-Janusek and Herbert L. Mathews. Jill M. White: Physiological measurement of the stress response / Jill M. White and Carol Mattson Porth). Stimulus-oriented stress (Joan Stehle Werner: Major life stressors and health outcomes / Joan Stehle Werner and Marlene Hanson Frost. Carol L. Macnee: Microstressors and health / Carol L. Macnee and Susan McCabe)