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Gulf War veterans : treating symptoms and syndromes
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ISBN: 0309075874 0309510791 9780309510790 9780309075879 0305075874 0309170494 9780309170499 Year: 2001 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : ©2001 National Academy Press,

Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement
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ISBN: 9780231129480 0231129483 9780231503259 0231503253 9786612796241 1282796240 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of color concerned about the asthma epidemic have become critical of biomedical models that emphasize the role of genetic makeup and individual lifestyle practices. Likewise, scientists have lost patience with their colleagues' and government's failure to adequately address environmental health issues and to safeguard research from corporate manipulation.Focusing specifically on breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related health conditions-"contested illnesses" that have generated intense debate in the medical and political communities-Phil Brown shows how these concerns have launched an environmental health movement that has revolutionized scientific thinking and policy. Before the last three decades of widespread activism regarding toxic exposures, people had little opportunity to get information. Few sympathetic professionals were available, the scientific knowledge base was weak, government agencies were largely unprepared, laypeople were not considered bearers of useful knowledge, and ordinary people lacked their own resources for discovery and action.Brown argues that organized social movements are crucial in recognizing and acting to combat environmental diseases. His book draws on environmental and medical sociology, environmental justice, environmental health science, and social movement studies to show how citizen-science alliances have fought to overturn dominant epidemiological paradigms. His probing look at the ways scientific findings are made available to the public and the changing nature of policy offers a new perspective on health and the environment and the relationship among people, knowledge, power, and authority.


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Impotent warriors : Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity
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ISBN: 1785336592 1282627422 9786612627422 1845458796 1845455266 1845455274 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berghahn Books

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From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name "Gulf War Syndrome" (GWS). This book is an investigation into this recently emergent illness, particularly relevant given ongoing UK deployments to Iraq, describing how the illness became a potent symbol for a plethora of issues, anxieties, and concerns. At present, the debate about GWS is polarized along two lines: there are those who

Adequacy of the comprehensive clinical evaluation program : nerve agents
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ISBN: 0309057434 9786610191437 1280191430 030959040X 0585085854 9780585085852 9780309059497 0309059496 9780309057431 0309059496 Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington, DC, USA National Academies Press

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