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Online-Ressource (240 p.)
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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
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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;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814749234
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814746622
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bodies in Protest : Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge
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English
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