Environmental Hazards and Veterans'Framing of Gulf War Illness
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 403-420
ISSN: 1475-682X
Military personnel and other civilians were exposed to numerous environmental hazards during their service in the Persian Gulf Crisis. Nearly a decade later well over 100,000 veterans, spouses, and other civilians are claiming illnesses related to these exposures. The U.S. government denies a connection and refuses to sanction these claims of environmental illness. Analyzing data from in‐depth interviews and various documents, the author examines the veterans'framing of Gulf War Illness and the government's response to this environmental illness frame.