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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 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.

Allergic diseases --- Allergie --- Allergies --- Allergy --- Clinical ecology --- Diseases--Environmental aspects --- Environment [Maladies dues à ] --- Environmentally induced diseases --- Hypersensitivity --- Hypersensitivity [Immediate ] --- Immediate allergy --- Immediate hypersensitivity --- Maladies dues a l'environnement --- Maladies--Aspects de l'environnement --- Milieu [Ziekten veroorzaakt door het ] --- Ziekten veroorzaakt door het milieu --- Ziekten--Milieu-aspecten --- Allergy. --- Environmentally induced diseases. --- Environmental Illness --- Disorders of Environmental Origin --- Diseases --- Immune System Diseases --- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Pathology --- Hypersensitivity, Immediate --- Environmental illness --- Environmental aspects --- Immunologic diseases --- Immunoglobulin E --- Environmental health --- Medical geography --- Causes and theories of causation

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Mutagenesis. --- Carcinogenesis. --- Environmentally induced diseases. --- Agrotechnology and Food Sciences. Toxicology --- Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Teratology, Reproduction Toxicity --- Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Teratology, Reproduction Toxicity. --- Carcinogenesis --- Environmentally induced diseases --- Mutagenesis --- Cancer --- Oncogenesis --- Pathogenesis of cancer --- Tumorigenesis --- Pathology --- Genetic toxicology --- Mutation (Biology) --- Radiogenetics --- Teratogenesis --- Clinical ecology --- Diseases --- Environmental illness --- Environmental health --- Medical geography --- Pathogenesis --- Environmental aspects --- Causes and theories of causation

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Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental health problems. It does this by showing how to integrate relevant aspects of environmental science, communication sciences, toxicology, and most importantly environmental epidemiology skills to conduct initial investigations which encompass all relevant issues. The book uses a problem orientated style, using case studies, to provide practical examples of how to plan and carry out investigations or research pr

Environmental health. --- Epidemiology. --- Diseases --- Public health --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental Health. --- Environmental Illness --- Epidemiological Monitoring. --- Environmentally induced diseases --- Hygiène du milieu --- Maladies de l'environnement --- epidemiology. --- Epidemiology --- Epidémiologie

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This authoritative reference volume emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience communities by elucidating the geologic origins and flow of toxic elements in the environment that lead to human exposure through the consumption of food and water. For example, problems of excess intake from drinking water have been encountered for several inorganic compounds, including fluoride in Africa and India; arsenic in certain areas of A

Environmentally induced diseases. --- Environmental health. --- Medical geography. --- Geology --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Diseases --- Geographical distribution of diseases --- Geographical pathology --- Geography, Medical --- Geomedicine --- Medical topography --- Pathology, Geographic --- Topography, Medical --- Geography --- Medical climatology --- World health --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Clinical ecology --- Environmental illness --- Environmental health --- Medical geography --- Health aspects. --- Geographical distribution --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Causes and theories of causation

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The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death—and, as the President’s (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously “grossly underestimated”. The Millers’ cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.

Oncologists --- Cancer --- Chemical carcinogenesis --- Environmentally induced diseases --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Tumors --- Clinical ecology --- Diseases --- Environmental illness --- Environmental health --- Medical geography --- Chemical induction of cancer --- Chemical induction of neoplasms --- Chemical induction of tumors --- Chemical tumorigenesis --- Chemically induced cancer --- Chemically induced neoplasm --- Chemically induced neoplasms --- Chemically induced tumor --- Chemically induced tumors --- Carcinogenesis --- Cancer specialists --- Cancerologists --- Medical scientists --- Physicians --- Research --- History --- Prevention --- Environmental aspects --- Causes and theories of causation --- Miller, Elizabeth C. --- Miller, James A.