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Skewed by Martin J Walker
Contents list
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Contents Chapter 1: Stifling science Introduces the subject of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and the psychiatric arguments used against it. It looks at the way an outbreak of ‘MCS-like illness’ was argued away by psychiatrically biased investigators. It begins an examination of the use by chemical companies and industrially backed foundations of the psychiatric arguments about chemical illnesses, particularly in North America.
Case history 1: HRT poisoning diagnosed as mental illness Chapter 2: The politics of medical cynicism Gives an overview of the existence and growth of groups set up to campaign on behalf of professional orthodox medicine and industrial science in the UK and North America, all of which support psychiatric arguments for unexplained illnesses. It gives accounts of their linked organisations and biographical information of their principal personalities.
Case history 2: OP poisoning defined under the Mental Health Act Chapter 3: The public health revisionists Goes into the detailed arguments advanced by the main healthfraud and greenwash activists for a psychological aetiology of ME, CFS, Gulf War Syndrome, Organophosphate pesticide poisoning and other illnesses. It looks at the writings and the placement of the main activists.
Case history 3: An insurance company gets expert advice Chapter 4: ME: a disposable illness Looks at ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the background of these illnesses and how a group of psychiatrists and others changed the definition of ME and created a vast pool of patients with a wide variety of fatigue-like symptoms.
Case history 4: A case of Pirimiphos-Methyl poisoning Chapter 5: Same old, same old Deals with the constitution, work and conclusions of the British Chief Medical Officer’s Working Group on ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It places emphasis on the group’s psychiatric leanings, its lack of accountability and its inability to give an objective analysis of ME or CFS. The section views the report of the CMO’s Working Group in the context of previous similar reports in England an other countries.
Case history 5: MCS and Munchausen’s by Proxy Chapter 6: The wood and the trees
Draws conclusions from the preceding sections and concludes the critique of the
Chief Medical Officer’s Report and other inquiries. It criticises psychiatric
research into CFS and questions bias and funding in contemporary science.
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