Clinical ecology

Finn, R. 1987-88. A Review Organic Solvent Sensitivity. Clinical Ecology 5, 155-158. 

An Alternative Approach to Allergies The New Field of Clinical Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of Mental and Physical Ills. Theron G. Randolph and Ralph W. Moss. New York HarperCollins, 1990. Written by the first modern physician to diagnose and treat environmental illness. 

In Canada more progress has been made in the recognition of MCS than in most countries of the world. Canada took many measures to improve the lives of MCS patients and others who have environmentally induced respiratory problems, like asthma patients. See, for example, the brochure of the Canadian Lung Association www.nb.lung. ca/pdf/NoScentsMakeSense.pdf Just like the U.S., Canada has several clinical ecological centers to help diagnose and support people with environmental illnesses. 

DeLeon IR, Antoine SR. 1985. Clinical screening test for toxic volatile organic chemicals in blood. Clinical Ecology 3 108-109. 

AAAI (American Academy of Allergy and Immunology). 1986. Clinical ecology. Executive Committee of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 78(2) 269-271. 

Clinical ecology, a branch of medicine that believes that foods and environmental chemicals can be responsible for illnesses with multiple symptoms that lack objective physical markers, defines ecologic illness as follows ... 

William Rea is the leading practitioner of clinical ecology. His Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Texas, has diagnosed more than 20,000 patients with chemical sensitivities. Rea defines chemical sensitivity as follows ... 

American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs Clinical ecology. JAMA 268 3465-3467, 1992... 

Amundsen MA, Hanson NP, Bruce BK, et al Odor aversion or multiple chemical sensitivities recommendation for a name change and description of successful behavioral medicine treatment. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 24 S116-S118,1996 Anderson JA, Chai H, Claman HN, et al Position statements clinical ecology. J Allergy Clin Immunol 78 269-271, 1986... 

There is also much talk about glucose, serotonin levels, and other chemical imbalances that may occur within the body. In many instances, specific food allergies are the prime suspect, including the use of food additives. There are problems with hormones and steroids (natural and injected or ingested) and with diethylstilbestrol (DES). And there are the environmental factors, weighed by Theron G. Randolph and Ralph W. Moss in An Alternative Approach to Allergies The New Field of Clinical Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of Mental and Physical Ills. 

By 1965, Randolph and a handful of others founded the Society of Clinical Ecology, which defined its interests as the interaction between an individual and his or her immediate habitat as reflected in total health. 2 The environment that impinged on the body was distinctly the ordinary built environment of late capitaHsm. The goods, building materials, and pollutants of the late twentieth century joined its mass-produced foods at the top of the clinical ecologist s Hst of possible excitants in the personal ecologies of home and work. 

Many Mcsers also monitored a detoxification system that operated in parallel with the immune system, ridding the body of foreign chemicals. The detoxification system has become a crucial part of the body-terrain in the field of clinical ecology. Sherry Rogers, a New York chnical ecologist who has written several popular books, described this body-terrain as the janitorial service of the body. The detoxification system keeps it dean so accumulated chemicals do not destroy the machinery. like the immune system, it is everywhere and nowhere in particular, primarily composed of en2ymes that break down chemicals in the body. 

A more generous and accurate look at biomedicine than the one in this chapter would find, not just a single assemblage, but many different ways of apprehending bodies related to different specialties and subcultures, not to mention dramatically shifting equipment and practices. And conversely, the cells within the mcs movement—such as clinical ecology or cyberspace—are building their own methods that cut up what is perceptible and imperceptible. However, in an uneven world, some ways of... 

This history is largdy culled from Dickey, Clinical Ecology and Randolph, Allergy and Chnical Ecology. ... 

Dickey, Clinical Ecology, 743. It is ironic that clinical ecologists used the term man in their writings when most of their patients were women and children. 

Many of the new practitioners in clinical ecology had themselves suffered from Mcs or environmental sensitivities Rea et al., Chemical Sensitivity. ... 

American Academy of AUergy and Immunology. Position Statements Clinical Ecology. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immundogy 78 (Aug. 1986) 269-71. 

American College of Physicians. Position Paper Clinical Ecology. Annals of Internal Medicine III, no. 2 (1989) 168-78. 

American Medical Association. Council Report Clinical Ecology. jama 268, no. 24 (1992) 3465-67. 

Dickey, Lawrence, ed. Clinical Ecology. Springfield, 111. Charles C. Thomas, 1976. 

Randolph, Theron. Both Allergy and Clinical Ecology Are Needed. Annals of Allergy (1977) 215 16. 

Environmental Medicine Beginnii and Bibliographies of Clinical Ecology. Fort Colhns, Colo. Chnical Ecology, 1987. 

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