Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

<p> The people profiled in this book tell how you can create a positive life when you no longer can work shop attend church and public events or socialize without unpleasant or worse consequences to your health from low-level chemical exposures. <I>Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity</I> is a collection of personal stories describing the lives and coping strategies of people with MCS from all over North America. It describes dozens of alternatives to the kinds of isolation and hopelessness that threaten people with this illness.</p><p> Laced with inspiration courage and humor these stories dispel myths associated with people who have MCS and will help others to articulate their own experience of the illness to family friends coworkers and health care providers. Foreword by Pamela Reed Gibson of James Madison University. Appendices include a medical overview resources for further information and support and a sociologists' view of MCS by Steve Kroll-Smith director of the Environmental Social Science Research Institute University of New Orleans. Includes photographs of persons whose lives are described.</p>