Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine - Softcover

Kroll-Smith, Stephen

 
9780814747292: Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814747299 ISBN 13: 9780814747292
Verlag: New York University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, in turn, forced to adapt to these altered conditions. Today, mysterious illnesses, from chronic fatigue to Gulf War Syndrome, meet us at every turn. Yet even as an increasing number of people attribute ailments to environmental problems, the suspected relationships between illness and environment remain unclear.
Illness and the Environment examines how sick people and their allies struggle to achieve public recognition of somatic complaints and disabilities that they contend are related to "manufactured environments." The first of its kind, the anthology considers the political, legal, and medical conflicts arising from these illnesses, and will prove invaluable to researchers, scholars, public policy makers, trial attorneys, and activist organizations.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Steve Kroll-Smith is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of New Orleans.

Phil Brown is Professor of Sociology at Brown University, author of Radical Psychology, and coauthor of No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action.
Valerie J. Gunter is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Research Institute at the University of New Orleans.



Valerie J. Gunter is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Research Institute at the University of New Orleans.

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Verlag
New York University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814747299
ISBN 13 
9780814747292
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
464
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