The Stress of My Life

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" The great medical pioneer, Dr. Hans Selye, author of the recent Stress Without Distress and the perennial classic The Stress of Life, now takes off his lab coat to speak casually and candidly about himself and his closest concerns. Here is the private life of the public figure, the personal trials, triumphs and human struggle of the man whose famous and revolutionary concept of stress opened countless new avenues of treatment for disease. Founder and Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal, the world-renowned scientist and researcher recalls his early life in Vienna, his student years in Prague, Paris and Rome, his first experiments, his hard- won success and his stress-based concepts of life and human behavior. A man of single- minded dedication, Dr. Selye's private life and professional activity are inseparable, and The Stress of My Life explains, in terms the layman can understand, his research findings and the code of behavior he derived from them. Here, then, is an intriguing autobiography summing up the life and work of one of the century's prominent medical geniuses, a book which, in the author's words, is intended 'to give the reader a general idea of what makes one scientist tick- and tick happily- even after fifty years of research in laboratories and clinics.'"- Publisher.