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RECORD NUMBER: 50 OF 99| Main Title | Invisible trauma : the psychosocial effects of invisible environmental contaminants / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Vyner, Henry M. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Lexington Books, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1988 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 16683356 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 066912804X; 9780669128048 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Pollution ; Pollutants ; Pollution--Psychological aspects ; Environmental Health ; Environmental Pollution--adverse effects ; Psychophysiologic Disorders ; Stress, Psychological--etiology ; Umweltverschmutzung ; Psychosoziale Belastung | |||||||||||
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| Collation | x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Introduction -- The plague -- Invisibility and ambiguity -- The speculative response to invisible contamination -- Introduction to case studies -- Michigan PBB case study -- Love Canal case study -- Atomic veteran case study -- Uncertainty -- Stress theory -- Nonempirical belief systems -- Hypervigilance -- Traumatic neurosis -- The psychological effects of ionizing radiation -- Interlude -- Dysfunctional medical relationships -- Blaming the victim twice -- The institutional denial of invisible threat -- Epilogue: a nation of hypochondriacs. |