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The role of neural plasticity in chemical intolerance
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ISBN: 1573313092 Year: 2001 Volume: 933 Publisher: New York New York Academy of Sciences

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Chemical exposures : low levels and high stakes
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ISBN: 0442004990 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York Van Nostrand Reinhold

Multiple chemical sensitivities : addendum to biologic markers in immunotoxicology
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ISBN: 0309047366 9786610203246 1280203242 030959796X 0585149313 9780585149318 9780309047364 Year: 1992 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

Bodies in Protest : Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge
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ISBN: 0814746624 0814749232 9780814749234 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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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.

A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses
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ISBN: 0833055518 0585302359 9780833055514 0585308896 9780585308890 9780833026774 0833027956 9780585302355 9780833027955 0833026771 0833026771 Year: 2000 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] RAND Corporation The

Medically unexplained illness : gender and biopsychosocial implications
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ISBN: 0979212588 9780979212581 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] American Psychological Association

A review of the scientific literature as it pertains to Gulf War illnesses: vol. 5: chemical and biological warfare agents
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ISBN: 0585384282 9780585384283 0833026801 9780833026804 Year: 2000 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] RAND Corporation The

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