Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

by H. Hugh Floyd, Steven Kroll, Steve Kroll-Smith, et al.

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814747523
• ISBN13: 9780814747520
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Thought Provoking Account

Bodies In Protest is an account of how people with environmental illness attempt to makes sense of a mysterious disease the medical profession, with few exceptions, failes to recognize. It is very well-written and insightful. I learned a lot about the day to day problems of living with the illness and how difficult it is for people who suffer from it to live dignified lives. I suspect there will be plenty of science about this disease, but little human empathy for those who have it. This book is an effort to provide a human face to environmental illness. That it does so while also being theoretically evocative is a feather in the cap of the authors.