Bodies in Protest : Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge.

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 ai...

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Main Author: Kroll-Smith, Steve
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Floyd, H. Hugh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1997.
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505 0 |a 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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