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Hans Selye: History and Present Status of the Stress Concept. Jerome E. Singer and Laura M. Davidson: Specificity and Stress Research. Norman Cousins: Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient) Shelley E. Taylor: Health Psychology: The Science and the Field. Rene Dubos: The Living World. Andrew Baum: Toxins, Technology, and Natural Disasters. Edwin A. Locke and M. Susan Taylor: Stress, Coping, and the Meaning of Work. Allen D. Kanner, S . Shirley Feldman, Daniel A. Weinberger, and Martin E. Ford: Uplifts, Hassles, and Adaptational Outcomes in Early Adolescents. Richard S . Lazarus and Susan Folkman: The Concept of Coping. Susan Folkman and Richard S. Lazarus: Coping and Emotion. Frances Cohen: Measurement of Coping. Salvatore R. Maddi and Szanne C. Kobasa: The Development of Hardiness. Deborah Belle: Gender Differences in the Social Moderators of Stress. Logan Wright: The Type A Behavior Pattern and Coranry Artery Disease: Quest for the Active Ingredients and the Elusive Mechanism. James Anthony: The Response to Overwhelming Stress in Children: Some Introductory Comments. Leonard I. Pearlin: Life Strains and Psykological Distress Among Adults. David Mechanic: Some Modes of Adaptation. Rose Weitz: Uncertainty and the Lives of Persons with AIDS. Richard Suchulz and Janet Schlarb: Two Decades of Research on Dying: What Do We Know About the Patient? Camille B. Wortman and Roxane Cohen Silver: The Myths of Coping with Loss. Ethel Roskies: Stress Management: A New Approach to Treatment. Richard H. Cox: Intervention Strategies. Stanton Peele: Out of the Habit Trap. Kenneth R. Pelletier and Robert Lutz: Healthy People - Healthy Business: A Critical Review of Stress Management Programs in the Workplace.