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The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War
by Wheelwright, Jeff
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 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
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Item Price
$45.00$33.75
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64537
- Title
- The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War
- Author
- Wheelwright, Jeff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. A couple of pages have creased corners. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated
- ISBN 10
- 039301956X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393019568
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 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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