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SummaryStress remains one of the most used, yet imprecisely quasi-scientific words in the English language. Its meaning changes from situation to situation, from user to user. It is a word that is all things to all men. There is, however, one common thread running through all its usages—stress acts to the detriment of the wellbeing of the organism. Measurement of such detrimental consequences that can be reliably found would therefore seem to be the appropriate way of examining the matter. Only when this has been done should the mechanisms of pathological change be investigated.
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B. M. Freeman (1987) studied this question.
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