Bodies in Protest Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press
[1997]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430337706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion
- 2. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society
- 3. Something Unusual Is Happening Here
- 4. Bodies against Theory
- 5. Explaining Strange Bodies
- 6. Representation and the Political Economy of a New Body
- 7. A New Body in the Courts, Federal Policies, the Market, and Beyond
- 8. Bodies, Environments, and Interpretive Space
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
