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Consumer Health Library: Chemical Sensitivity : The Truth about Environmental Illness by Ronald E. Gots and Stephen Barrett (1998, Hardcover)

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Chemical sensitivity (or "multiple chemical sensitivity") describes people with numerous troubling symptoms attributed to environmental factors, from simple housepaint to complex building structures and materials in offices and schools. Many such people are seeking special accommodations, applying for disability benefits, and filing lawsuits claiming that exposure to common foods and chemicals has made them ill. Their efforts are supported by some physicians who refer themselves as clinical ecologists. They use questionable diagnoses and treatment methods, while critics charge that these approaches are bogus and that "chemical sensitivity" is not a valid diagnosis. The complaints associated with chemical sensitivity include depression, irritability, poor memory, fatigue, drowsiness, constipation, sneezing, wheezing, skin rashes, headache, chest pain, pounding heart, swelling, upset stomach, paralysis, AIDS-like illnesses, psychotic experiences, and just about every other symptom noted in medical textbooks. One prominent clinical ecologist even claimed that chemical sensitivity patients may well be human "canaries" on an increasingly poisoned planet, and others have actually labeled chemical sensitivity as a disease. While some people are adversely affected by exposure to some chemicals, there is an overwhelming increase in false claims and reports from misled obsessive patients and opportunistic doctors. Chemical Sensitivity examines this phenomenon in depth and the scientific, legal, ethical, and political issues that surround it. The authors explore the speculations about environmental exposure in the light of scientific knowledge of human physiology, allergy and immunology, pathology, toxicology, and clinical medicine. They evaluate cases of chemical sensitivity relative to controlled tests, and reveal that symptoms were brought on by psychological factors rather than physical ones. Chemical Sensitivity also critically assesses claims related to "sick building syndrome," "mercury-amalgam toxicity," "yeast allergy," and Gulf War syndrome.

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Publisher
Prometheus Books, Publishers
ISBN-10
1573921955
ISBN-13
9781573921954
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Author
Stephen Barrett, Ronald E. Gots
Publication Name
Chemical Sensitivity : the Truth about Environmental Illness
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Consumer Health Library
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
212 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
0 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Rb152.6.B37 1998
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Pharmacology, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology)
Lccn
97-053181
Dewey Decimal
615.9/02
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Science, Medical

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