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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: XII, 241 S. , Ill. , 23 cm

ISBN: 9780761987505 , 0761987509

Language: English

Subjects: Geography , General works

Keywords: Stadt ; Umweltveränderung ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Stadtökologie ; Kulturlandschaft ; Umweltveränderung ; Siedlungsgeografie ; Umweltschaden

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource

ISBN: 9780814749234

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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Format: xiv, 198 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 978-1-4773-1610-8 , 978-1-4773-1611-5

Series Statement: Katrina bookshelf

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, library e-book ISBN 978-14773-1612-2

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, non-library e-book ISBN 978-1-4773-1613-9

Language: English

Keywords: Naturkatastrophe ; Krisenmanagement ; Katrina

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030547512&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

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Format: xiii, 164 Seiten : , Illustrationen, Karten ; , 24 cm.

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 978-1-4773-0369-6 , 978-1-4773-0384-9

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028899273&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (ca. 253 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-4522-0416-1

Note: Literaturangaben und Index. - Neue Seitenzählung in jedem Kapitel, abweichend von Seitenzählung in print-Version

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-7619-8750-5

Language: English

Subjects: Engineering , Geography , General works

Keywords: Stadt ; Umweltveränderung ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Stadtökologie ; Kulturlandschaft ; Umweltveränderung ; Siedlungsgeografie ; Umweltschaden

DOI: 10.4135/9781452204161

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780814749234

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.

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

DOI: 10.18574/9780814749234

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814749234

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781477303856

Content: How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with raw existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Acknowledgments -- , Foreword -- , Prologue -- , Introduction: Water, Conversations, and Race -- , I: NAVIGATING CONTINGENCY IN TWO HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS -- , 1. “Katrina Takes Aim” -- , 2. Geographies of Class and Color -- , II: FROM EVACUEES TO EXILES -- , 3. Life on the Road -- , 4. From the Road to Exile -- , III: TRAVERSING AND REBUILDING -- , 5. It’s Available, but Is It Accessible? -- , 6. Rebuilding in a Broken City -- , 7. “The Katrina Effect” -- , Epilogue: Making a Space for Chance -- , Notes -- , About the Authors and Series Editor -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7560/303696

URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/303696

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477303856

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781477316122

Content: A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were disproportionately among the thousands who perished. These striking similarities in the impacts of cataclysms separated by a century impelled Steve Kroll-Smith to look for commonalities in how the cities recovered from disaster. In Recovering Inequality, he builds a convincing case that disaster recovery and the reestablishment of social and economic inequality are inseparable. Kroll-Smith demonstrates that disaster and recovery in New Orleans and San Francisco followed a similar pattern. In the immediate aftermath of the flooding and the firestorm, social boundaries were disordered and the communities came together in expressions of unity and support. But these were quickly replaced by other narratives and actions, including the depiction of the poor as looters, uneven access to disaster assistance, and successful efforts by the powerful to take valuable urban real estate from vulnerable people. Kroll-Smith concludes that inexorable market forces ensured that recovery efforts in both cities would reestablish the patterns of inequality that existed before the catastrophes. The major difference he finds between the cities is that, from a market standpoint, New Orleans was expendable, while San Francisco rose from the ashes because it was a hub of commerce.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , FOREWORD: CRISIS AND CAPITAL: THE DARK SIDE OF RECOVERY -- , FROM WHENCE RECOVERY? A PRELUDE -- , I AN INTRODUCTION -- , 1 “THE EARTH DRAGON” AND “MISS KATRINA” -- , 2 GEOGRAPHIES OF INEQUALITY A SKETCH OF TWO CITIES SPANNING A CENTURY -- , II DERANGING AND REKINDLING -- , 3 THE GREAT DERANGEMENTS -- , 4 FASHIONING “THE LOOTER” REKINDLING RACIAL AND CLASS KINDS -- , III REBOOTING INEQUALITY, THE ROAD TO RECOVERY -- , 5 DISASTER RELIEF PARSING THE VERNACULARS OF WORTHINESS -- , 6 SPATIAL ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION: TWO ATTEMPTS TO ROB THE MARGINAL -- , 7 ONE CITY NECESSARY, ONE CITY EXPENDABLE -- , BY WAY OF CLOSING -- , NOTES -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7560/316108

URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/316108

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477316122

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)

ISBN: 9780814749234 , 0814749232

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

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780814746622

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

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Umweltkrankheit ; Electronic books

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