Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Narratives of Coping

by Pamela Reed Gibson and Gail McCormick

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. Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786408871
• ISBN13: 9780786408870
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Tells it like it is.

Most of my friends (?) and relatives really don't believe there is such a thing as MULTI-CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY. I would love to send each of them one of these books but can't afford it! Other than it's cost, it's the best book of it's type that I've seen.

Stories of Encouragement of those living with MCS

Inspiring personal stories of individuals successfully coping with life in a world that until recently was largely unaware of the growing problem of multiple chemical sensitivities or chemical injury from everyday "modern" chemicals, fragrances, cleaning agents, et cetera. This book is educational and enlightening, not only for the loved ones of MCSers but also for the innumerable individuals developing MCS yet up till now have been at a loss as to why their health is of poorer quality and continues to decline, who have been from one physician to another with no answers, or written off with a psychiatric or "it's all in your head" condition. This well-written book offers strategies from differing viewpoints for creating a world free from the isolation of MCS. The concise forward by the author and Professor Pamela Reed Gibson are both descriptive and highly educational. This book is written for those with loved ones with MCS, those who suspect they themselves may be afflicted by unexplainable symptoms that do not fade away, and for the public at large who wish to protect their own health while still unaffiliated. Presented with hope and reconciliation rather than anger, it is an excellent "first" and "must read" book on the realities of living in our modern "chemical age".