ISBN:
9780814749234
,
0814749232
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
Parallel Title:
Kroll-Smith, Steve Bodies in protest
Parallel Title:
Print version Kroll-Smith, Steve Bodies in Protest : Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge
Keywords:
Allergy
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Environmentally induced diseases
;
Allergy
;
Environmentally induced diseases
;
MEDICAL ; Diseases
;
Allergy
;
Environmentally induced diseases
;
Electronic books
;
Umweltkrankheit
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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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