Multiple chemical sensitivity names

MCS is a sensitivity to chemical substances. After all, this disease is named multiple chemical sensitivity and not multiple scent sensitivity. A person can... 

TABLE 18-1. Other names for multiple chemical sensitivities... 

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The MCS movement was formed of a network of informal cells where participants could come together a newsletter, an Internet chat, a health-food store, a support group in a women s center, an understanding church, a specialist lawyer, an environmental illness cHnic, a commune. I use the metaphor of cells to describe the movement because it was made up of many diverse pockets of activity that formed a supple tissue of contacts. 2 The movement held together a host of names and explanations given to sick bodies environmental illness, chemical injury, immune dysregulation, twentieth-century disease, universal reactors, and multiple chemical sensitivity. Multiple chemical sensitivity was only the most repeated of these, though environmental illness was a... 

The messy controversy around environmental illness is complicated by both the multiphcity of names used and the lack of a single definition. However, one offered by Mark Cullen has proved useful and influential Multiple chemical sensitivities (mcs) is an acquired disorder characterized by recurrent symptoms, referable to multiple organ systems, occurring in response to demonstrable exposure to many chemical unrelated compounds at doses far below those established in the general population to cause harmful effects. No single widely accepted physiological function can be shown to correlate with symptoms Cullen, Workers, 657. 

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