Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - Narratives of Coping

The people profiled in this book tell how you can create a positive life when you no longer can work, shop, attend church and public events or socialize without unpleasant, or worse, consequences to your health from low-level chemical exposures. Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is a collection of personal stories describing the lives and coping strategies of people with MCS from all over North America. It describes dozens of alternatives to the kinds of isolation and hopelessness that threaten people with this illness.
Laced with inspiration, courage and humor, these stories dispel myths associated with people who have MCS, and will help others to articulate their own experience of the illness to family, friends, coworkers, and health care providers. Foreword by Pamela Reed Gibson of James Madison University. Appendices include a medical overview, resources for further information and support, and a sociologists' view of MCS by Steve Kroll-Smith, director of the Environmental Social Science Research Institute, University of New Orleans. Includes photographs of persons whose lives are described.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Foreword by Pamela Gibson

Introduction

Midwest Stories

Elizabeth Schuster

Lynn Lawson

Nicholas Elijah Weiss

Southwest Stories

Ann McCampbell

Erica Elliott

Tomasita Gallegos

Roy Bolbery

Jennifer

Susan Molloy

Southern Stories

Diane Hamilton

Irene Wilkenfeld

Linda Angeles

California Stories

Carolyn Martin

Jack Ronan

Barbara Wilkie

Paci¿c Northwest Stories

Herbert Whitish

Alanna and Mariah Ahern

Peggy Kadey

Don Paladin

Jill Holden

Christina Jacobs

Robbynne Martin

John Pruitt

Matthew and Danielle Malcolm

Terri Crawford Hansen

Canadian Stories

Karen Forbes

Jean MacKenzie

Katy Young

Bernard Miller

A Voice from Belarus

Anatoly Khramchenkov

A Signi¿cant Other Voice

Curt Schuster

Appendix A-A Sociologist's View

Appendix B-What Is Multiple Chemical Sensitivity?

Appendix C-Starting Points for Finding Medical, Emotional and Social Support

Appendix D-Recommended Reading

Index

About the author

Gail McCormick, a woman living with MCS, is a professional mental health counselor and biographer. She lives in Washington.

Product details

• Authors: Gail McCormick, McCormick Gail
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2000
• EAN: 9780786408870
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-0887-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: McFarland Health Topics
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, North America, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Coping with disability, Pollution & threats to the environment, North America (USA and Canada), Pollution and threats to the environment, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, HEALTH & FITNESS / Disability