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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.