contested illness

is a disease or condition in which there is dispute over environmental causation.

Phil Brown and those affiliated with the former Contested Illness Research Group at Brown University, to mean "diseases or conditions in which there is dispute over environmental causation."13 For these sociologists, approaches to understanding contested illness are "situated at the intersection of environmental health and environmental justice."14 p.7

is any bodily condition whose biological basis is disputed.

My use of contested illness is a departure from previous applications because in more broadly describing contested illness as any bodily condition whose biological basis is disputed, it insists that these illnesses are not limited to environmental causation and highlights the inextricability of their relationship with evidence-based medicine. p. 7

is at once a disorder over which bodies of thought are divided and a bodily condition that is experienced as a disease but is often perceived to be illnesses.

contested illnesses are disorders over which bodies of thought are divided, and they are also bodily conditions that are always experienced as diseases but are often perceived to be illnesses.

contested illness, n.All

contested illness