FRHD 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Adrenal Medulla, Allostatic Load, Sympathetic Nervous System
13 Nov 2013
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Chapter 2 social organization, stress, and health. View that what is stress for one person is stimulation for another. Relate biological response of individual to social environment acting upon him or her. Response will be influenced by previous experience and perhaps genetic make-up, but is sufficient regularity of response to suggest that right approach is to understand how social environment impacts on biology to cause disease. Model elaborated by sapolsky is that fight-or-flight response is adaptive in acute stress by may be maladaptive in chronic stress in today"s urban environment. Psychosocial factors and their influences on health are active areas of research. Biological processes must be involved in connection between social structure and health. Even more than health, biology is thought of as an individual rather than social attribute. Individual, clinical view of health determinants is vitally important. Underlies medical training and biomedical science, and provides framework for treatment, cure, and amelioration of disease.
