FRHD 3090 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 pov

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3090
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

This chapter takes up the issue of biologically plausibility; there are two broad issues: We relate the biological response of the individual to the social environment acting upon them (stress is not just property of the individual) The response will barely be influenced by previous experience and perhaps genetics. Engineering analogy; external demands are the stressor and the biological response may or may not (depending on the resilience of the subject) have desirable consequences. What is clearly known of the physiology of the fight or flight response. More difficult to determine is how it related to chronic stress and later on to disease. Adaptive in acute stress, but may be maladaptive in chronic stress in todays urban environment. The individual, clinical view of health determinants is vitally important it underlies medical training and biomedical science, and provides framework for treatment, cure etc. Public health view emphasises prevention rather than a cure.