Bodies in Protest
Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11099952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Conrad (corresponding author), Stephen Kroll-Smith (0000-0002-7885-4247) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge, Steve Kroll-Smith, 2020 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2654823 |
| OpenAlex | W2115567441 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Martha Ward, research professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans, read chapters 1 through 3, attending to their symbolic, somatic arguments.Susan Kroll-Smith read each chapter from the standpoint of one versed in psychodynamics and interested in bodies and environments.Steve Couch and Phil Brown, good friends
Political science · Sociology · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Health and Conflict Studies · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Psychology
Negotiating the diagnostic uncertainty of contested illnesses
Putting Pain to Paper
Experts and Anecdotes
The Social Construction of Illness
The Medicalization of Society
Undone science and social movements
Defying Displacement
Building Environmental States
Managing the Uncertainties of Gulf War Illness
Neoliberal Knowledge
Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions
Self-Help Literature and the Making of an Illness Identity
Pollution Comes Home and Gets Personal
Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization
Disentangling the Exposure Experience
Similar Pressures, Different Contexts
“But I Know It’s True”
Canary Science in the Mineshaft of the Anthropocene
Mostly accurate with occasional piles of bullshit
The "Elsewhere within Here" and Environmental Illness; or, How to Build Yourself a Body in a Safe Space
Forty years on the fenceline
Slowing the nanotechnology treadmill
Our Diagnoses, Our Selves’
Peri-Urbanism in Globalizing India
Acquiring a diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome
The Potentials and Limitations of Civil Society Research
Postnormal Science, Precautionary Principle, and Worst Cases
We’re a Disease to Someone”
From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults
Patients-in-Waiting
Risk Society and Contested Illness
Biomedicalization
The Ethical Significance of Language in the Environmental Sciences
Just science? Organizing scientist activism in the US environmental justice movement
Left in the Dust
Scientist Activism in Environmental Justice Conflicts
Attuning to the Chemosphere
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
I Never Wanted to Be a Quack
Environmental Issues and Work
Shifting Subject Positions
Les signalements profanes de clusters de cancers
Repressive authenticity in the quest for legitimacy
Contesting stigma and contested emotions
Patient activism and the struggle for diagnosis
You don't need a prescription to go gluten-free
"The "Western disease
Dead by 50
"Lyme Disease and the Epistemic Tensions of "Medically Unexplained Illnesses
Morgellons
Debating the legitimacy of a contested environmental illness
Managing biomedical uncertainty
No one agrees except for those of us who have it
Embodied health movements
Regenerating movements
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |