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The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War
de Wheelwright, Jeff
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good in very good dust jacket. A couple of pages have creased corners. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
- ISBN 10
- 039301956X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393019568
- Librería
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. A couple of pages have creased corners. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. 427 p. Following the Gulf War, thousands of veterans developed illnesses that medicine was unable to explain. Ten years later many of them remain ill. In "The Irritable Heart" Jeff Wheelwright profiles five ailing US veterans, unravelling the health mystery through their case histories. He reviews the toxic substances in the environment that many believe to be the cause of the conditions and demonstrates why such scenarios are unlikely. Rather, he shows that Gulf War illnesses belong in the company of chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple chemical sensitivity-symptom complexes that evade a biomedical explanation. Doubters have dismissed the veterans' conditions as a psychological fabrication but Wheelwright maintains that Gulf War syndrome is a real illness, consisting of physical symptoms magnified and aggravated by psychological distress. The only way to understand these elusive sicknesses is to consider the mind and body as one suffering system.
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- Librería
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 64537
- Título
- The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War
- Autor
- Wheelwright, Jeff
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good in very good dust jacket. A couple of pages have creased corners. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated
- ISBN 10
- 039301956X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393019568
- Editorial
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Agent Orange, Chronic Fatigue, Baumzweiger, Ronald Blanck, Daniel Clauw, Disability, Charles Engel, Fibromyalgia, Robert Haley, Ronald Hamm, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Donald Reigle, Posttraumatic Stress, James Tuite, Veterans Affairs
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