Environmental illness and biomedicine
Anomalies, exemplars, and the politics of the body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2155181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Kroll-Smith (0000-0002-7885-4247, University of New Orleans), Steve Kroll‐smith, Anthony E Ladd |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-33 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Spectrum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02732173.1993.9982015 |
| OpenAlex | W2093918980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
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 pathophysiological 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 micropolitics 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
Biomedicine · Disease · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2009 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |