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If you choose to follow any links to the complete text of articles listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Timothy F. Jones, Allen S. Craig, Debbie Hoy, Elaine W. Gunter, David L. Ashley, Dana B. Barr, John W. Brock, and William Schaffner Mass Psychogenic Illness Attributed to Toxic Exposure at a High School. (... a report on the phenomenon and consequences of mass psychogenic illness [also known as epidemic hysteria, mass sociogenic illness, and transient situational disturbance] in the context of an event that occurred at a high school in Tennessee [United States] in November 1998 that had many features of mass psychogenic illness. Mass psychogenic illness is basically characterized by widespread subjective symptoms thought to be associated with environmental exposure to a toxic substance in the absence of objective evidence of an environmental cause. Outbreaks of illness of this type are very difficult to deal with--especially in a way that satisfies all those involved--and, the authors predict, may increase in frequency as public fears about environmental degradation, toxic substances, bioterrorism, and other environmental worries increase--from the text of the article) The New England Journal of Medicine Volume 342, Number 2 (January 13, 2000): 96-100. **An abstract of this article is currently available through the Web site of The New England Journal of Medicine** How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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