They're poisoning us! From the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico
Subtitle: an investigative report
By: by Arnold Mann
Publisher: 34th Street Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780615410630
Subjects: Multiple chemical sensitivity
Description: "The primary objective of this book, besides visiting the chemically sensitive and observing the common threads that run through their broken lives, is to look at the new research that is making it possible to glimpse the underlying biological mechanism driving this global health problem and begin to answer such key questions as why people stay sick years after leaving a toxic environment, why some get sick while others do not, and what can be done to interrupt the disease process that is keeping them sick"--Page 28.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Into the abyss: life and death in Southwest Airlines' San Antonio Reservations Center; title: It doesn't go away: the Southwest Seven ten years later; title: chemically sensitive and housebound; title: In the beginning: a great detective story from one of medicine's greatest detectives; title: How big is this thing?: the toxic plague seen from the ground and through the telescope of epidemiology; title: A crying shame: the political story: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turns a blind eye to dying infants in mold-infested inner city housing, and other disturbing tales of environmental politics; title: When Johnny comes marching home: Gulf War illness; title: the biggest scandal in American military history; title: The nature of the beast: It's not all in their heads, and the science is now there to prove it, with Gulf War vets doing double duty in the nation's research labs; title: Gulf War II: the human toll of the BP oil spill; title: it isn't over, with thousands of Gulf of Mexico residents destined to join the ranks of the chemically disabled; title: Treating the untreatable: there's no cure, but treatments are emerging from the new science.