Risk and the Social Construction of ‘Gulf War Syndrome’
It may be that the search for a scientific or medical solution to Gulf War Syndrome was misguided. If there is such an entity, it appears to have much in common with other 'illnesses of modernity', whose roots are more socially and culturally driven than what doctors would conventionally consider to be diseases.


First published by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 26 March 2006

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