Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge
Тела в протесте: экологические болезни и борьба за медицинские знания
1998-03-01
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A book is never written alone.Like a child, it takes a community to bring it to maturity.A research initiation grant from the University of New Orleans supported the first author through several months of interviewing.
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It analyzes symbolic and somatic arguments in early chapters to show how meaning and bodily symptoms shape contested medical narratives.
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Multiple disciplinary viewpoints (anthropology, psychodynamics, social science) are brought together to illuminate struggles over validating medical knowledge about environmental illness.
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Psychodynamic perspectives are used to explore interactions between bodies and environments in understanding environmental illness.
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The work examines how bodies and bodily experiences are central to protests over environmental illness and medical knowledge.
Research Object
Environmental illness sufferers and their embodied protests over medical knowledge
Research Subject
How bodies-in-protest contest, produce, and struggle over medical knowledge regarding environmental illness (symbolic and somatic arguments about bodies and environments)
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