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Investigating Power in Search of Autonomy
For those wishing to support this work financially
SKEWED
With a foreword by Per Dalen MD, PhD,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
SKEWED: Psychiatric hegemony and the manufacture of mental illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a detailed investigation into the psychiatric diagnosis of a range of illnesses which some have suggested are actually caused by chemicals. The book traces the chemical companies arguments against their products causing illnesses and it tracks the growth of the theory promoted by them that individuals who report symptoms of chemically induced ill health have personality disorders.
The book asks how psychiatric theories of ' unexplained illness' have managed to gain ascendancy and shape the diagnosis, research funding and public perception of these illnesses in Britain.
About Martin Walker's last book Dirty Medicine: Peter Cox, author of You Don't Need Meat:
'One of the most important books written on health in the last decade.' Christopher Bird, author of The Secret Life of Plants:
'A masterpiece of investigative journalism and attentive scholarship, elegantly written.'
Townsend Letter for Doctors:
'Dirty Medicine embodies investigative reporting at its best.'
£12.00 $20 €18
ISBN 0 9519646 4X
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285 pages,
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285 pages,
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£7.50 plus post £3.00
