Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic - Softcover

Johnson, Hillary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140263470 ISBN 13: 9780140263473

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

For more than a decade a devastating disease has been allowed to spread through our country - unchecked, insufficiently researched, and all but ignored, if not denied, by the medical establishment. In many circles this disease, still known as Yuppi Flu, is dismissed as a psychological aberration. For the nearly two million people who have endured its traumatic and very real debilitating physical effects, however, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is no joke.

About this title

About the Author:

Hillary Johnson has been a staff writer at Congressional Quarterly, Women's Wear Daily, Life, and was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Town & Country, Vogue, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. In 1987, her series about myalgic encephalomyelitis, a.k.a., "CFS", for Rolling Stone was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

Synopsis:

An informative book provides facts and refutes myths about a disease that affects three hundred out of every hundred thousand Americans, discussing its origins and symptoms as well as presenting personal accounts from those who have or had suffered from CFS. Reprint. PW.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140263470
• ISBN 13: 9780140263473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736