Bodies in Protest Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

• Main Author: Kroll-Smith, Steve (auth)
• Other Authors: Floyd, H. Hugh (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: NYU Press 1997
• Subjects: Diseases & disorders; Health Sciences
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...