Bodies in Protest : : Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge / / Steve Kroll-Smith, H. Hugh Floyd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kroll-Smith, Steve,; Floyd, H. Hugh,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part One
• 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion
• 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society
• Part Two
• 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here
• 4. Bodies against Theory
• 5. Explaining Strange Bodies
• Part Three
• 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body
• 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond
• Conclusion
• 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index