LEADER 04554nam 22006015 450 001 996588066303316 005 20200623100627.0 010 $a0-8147-4923-2 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814749234 035 $a(CKB)2670000000167786 035 $a(EBL)865646 035 $a(OCoLC)782877994 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113492 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113492 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10098965 035 $a(PQKB)10708345 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865646 035 $a(OCoLC)45844047 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10656 035 $a(DE-B1597)546872 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814749234 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000167786 100 $a20200623h19971997 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBodies in Protest $eEnvironmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge /$fSteve Kroll-Smith, H. Hugh Floyd 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[1997] 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aIncludes indexes. 311 $a0-8147-4662-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion -- $t2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society -- $t3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here -- $t4. Bodies against Theory -- $t5. Explaining Strange Bodies -- $t6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body -- $t7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond -- $t8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tName Index -- $tSubject Index 330 $aGulf 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 in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control. 606 $aAllergy 606 $aEnvironmentally induced diseases 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAllergy. 615 0$aEnvironmentally induced diseases. 676 $a362.19698 686 $aLC 56000$2rvk 700 $aKroll-Smith$b Steve, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01234905 702 $aFloyd$b H. Hugh, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996588066303316 996 $aBodies in Protest$92868663 997 $aUNISA