| Autor: |
Kroll-Smith, Steve, Ladd, Anthony E. |
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Sociological Spectrum; Jan/Mar93, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p7-33, 27p |
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An increasing number of Americans claim to be suffering from a disease caused by low-level exposures to synthetic chemicals. Among the names given to this new medical problem are "multiple chemical sensitivity" and "environmental illness," or "EL" The symptoms of El and stories the environmentally ill tell about the origin of their disabilities cannot be accounted for using standard pathophysi-ological methods or theories. However, although the symptoms and etiology stories of El claimants violate many of the paradigm-induced expectations of biomedicine, they closely correspond to a deviant medical theory known as clinical ecology or environmental medicine. A sociological analysis of the epistemological dispute between biomedicine, the environmentally ill, and environmental medicine is accomplished using Kuhn's conflict model of scientific change and Foucault's micro politics of the body. The high-stakes social, political, and economic issues in this conflict are reflected in the complicated array of constituencies with disparate interests in its resolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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