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Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma—literally deathlike air—came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control.

Note: Includes indexes. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion -- , 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society -- , 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here -- , 4. Bodies against Theory -- , 5. Explaining Strange Bodies -- , 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body -- , 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond -- , 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Name Index -- , Subject Index , English

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Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

DOI: 10.18574/9780814749234

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Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question are certain diseases real? lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma literally deathlike air came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control

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Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times . This question--are certain diseases real?--lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma--literally deathlike air--came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled

Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times . This question--are certain diseases real?--lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma--literally deathlike air--came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled

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Additional Edition: Kroll-Smith, Steve Bodies in protest New York : New York Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 0814746624

Additional Edition: Print version Kroll-Smith, Steve Bodies in Protest : Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge New York : NYU Press, ©1997 ISBN 9780814746622

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Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question-are certain diseases real?-lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma-literally deathlike air-came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control.

Note: 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion -- 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society -- 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here -- 4. Bodies against Theory -- 5. Explaining Strange Bodies -- 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body -- 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond -- 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space.

Additional Edition: Print version: Kroll-Smith, Steve. Bodies in Protest : Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge. New York : NYU Press, ©1997 ISBN 9780814746622

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.)

ISBN: 0-8147-4923-2

Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma—literally deathlike air—came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control.

Note: Includes indexes. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion -- , 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society -- , 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here -- , 4. Bodies against Theory -- , 5. Explaining Strange Bodies -- , 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body -- , 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond -- , 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Name Index -- , Subject Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8147-4662-4

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

DOI: 10.18574/9780814749234

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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.)

ISBN: 0-8147-4923-2

Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma—literally deathlike air—came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control.

Note: Includes indexes. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion -- , 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society -- , 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here -- , 4. Bodies against Theory -- , 5. Explaining Strange Bodies -- , 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body -- , 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond -- , 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Name Index -- , Subject Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8147-4662-4

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

DOI: 10.18574/9780814749234

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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.)

ISBN: 0-8147-4923-2

Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma—literally deathlike air—came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control.

Note: Includes indexes. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion -- , 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society -- , 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here -- , 4. Bodies against Theory -- , 5. Explaining Strange Bodies -- , 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body -- , 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond -- , 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Name Index -- , Subject Index , English

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Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

DOI: 10.18574/9780814749234

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ISBN: 9780814746622

Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times . This question-are certain diseases real?-lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma-literally deathlike air-came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part One; 1 Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion; 2 Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society; Part Two; 3 Something Unusual Is Happening Here; 4 Bodies against Theory; 5 Explaining Strange Bodies; Part Three; 6 Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body; 7 A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond; Conclusion; 8 Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index;

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Content: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma—literally deathlike air—came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion -- , 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society -- , 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here -- , 4. Bodies against Theory -- , 5. Explaining Strange Bodies -- , 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body -- , 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond -- , 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Name Index -- , Subject Index , In English.

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Additional Edition: Print version: Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen. Bodies in protest : environmental illness and the struggle over medical knowledge. New York : New York University Press, [1997] ISBN 9780814746622

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