MCS:Bibliography of all peer-reviewed scientific papers, official reports, books

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Bibliography of all peer-reviewed scientific papers, official reports, books

and book chapters on MCS

_http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/)

 

 

MCS Referral & Resources maintains a complete bibliography of peer-reviewed

scientific papers, official reports, books and book chapters on Multiple

Chemical Sensitivity. The full bibliography is available sorted either

alphabetically or chronologically for $75.

 

The breakdown by subsets as shown below is available for an additional $75.

To order some of the best papers on MCS evaluation, treatment, accommodation

and research (in our humble opinion), see our _Resource List_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/literature.html)

Among over 609 references on MCS as of 9/99:

(not counting anything from the journal Clinical Ecology, which specializes

in MCS)

* 311 present findings of a _physical/organic basis for MCS_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/organic.html) and/or critique a

psychogenic basis

* 137 present findings of a _psychogenic basis for MCS_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/psych.html) and/or critique a

physical/organic

basis

* 96 present findings of _both perspectives_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/mixed.html) and/or do not take a

clear position either

way

* 37 present _research protocols_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/research.html) designed to test

hypotheses about the basis of MCS

* 53 present _letters to the editor_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/letters.html) about MCS

* 14 present _articles and letters not yet coded_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/uncoded.html) -- includes most

recent from 2000

* _All 609 references, sorted chronologically_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/allchrono.html)

* _All 609 references, sorted alphabetically_

(http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/bibliography/allalpha.html)

The peer-reviewed medical literature on MCS dates from 1952 but more than

half the 400+ references identified by MCS R & R were published since 1992.

Some of what has been reported on MCS in Medical Journals:

* 1881: Drug, alcohol, food and chemical sensitivitities (along with

chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia) are all described by G.M. Beard as symptoms

of Neurasthenia.

* 1952: The first peer-reviewed paper on chemical sensitivity, by

Theron Randolph, appears in J Clin Lab Med (40:931-2)

* 1963: The first double-blind " challenge " study of chemical

sensitivity in humans appears in Med Ann DC (32:1-8).

* Since 1952, over 400 medical articles, book chapters, editorials,

and conference proceedings have been published on MCS.

* More than 1/2 these articles suggest a physical basis for MCS, while

less than 1/4 suggest a psychiatric, psychogenic or iatrogenic basis. This

gap has been growing for a decade.

* More than 1/2 the articles on MCS were published since 1992, in

contrast to the anti-MCS position papers of various medical societies, which

all

predate 1993.