The Irritable Heart - Jeff Wheelwright

The Irritable Heart

The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War
Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2001
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-01956-8 (ISBN)
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In this study, Jeff 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.
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.

Jeff Wheelwright is a freelance journalist and the former science editor of Life magazine. He is the author of Degrees of Disaster and The Irritable Heart. He lives in Morro Bay, California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.8.2001
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 754 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Klinische Umweltmedizin
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-393-01956-X / 039301956X
ISBN-13 978-0-393-01956-8 / 9780393019568
Zustand Neuware
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