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ISBN:
9780814749234
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0814749232
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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
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