Steve Kroll-Smith & H. Hugh Floyd 
Bodies in Protest [EPUB ebook] 
Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

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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 int...

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H. Hugh Floyd is Professor of Sociology at Stamford University.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780814748565 ● File size 2.3 MB ● Publisher NYU Press ● Country US ● Published 1997 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5479969 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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