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AuthorWall, Dorothy, 1948-TitleEncounters with the invisible : unseen illness, controversy, and chronic fatigue syndrome / Dorothy Wall ; afterword by Nancy Klimas.Edition1st Southern Methodist University Press ed.
PublishedDallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2005.FormatBook
Biography, Autobiography
Descriptionxxvii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
SeriesMedical humanities
Gen. noteIncludes index.
ContentsAuthor’s note -- Introduction -- Prologue-Listening to Einstein in the dark -- Encounters with the invisible -- Seeing -- Silence -- That name -- The erotics of illness -- Staying home -- Neurasthenia revised -- Remedies, advice, and the (dis)information glut -- Listening -- Passing -- Protean phantasmagoria -- Brain drain -- The necessity of beauty -- That name.2 -- On determination -- Candida connection -- Limbo -- Returning -- Epilogue-Body of knowledge -- Afterword by nancy Klimas, M.D. -- Appendix: resource kit -- Notes -- Index..
Abstract"An important investigation of a little-understood illness with much to teach doctors and patients alike. General readers will find her personal story compelling as well as beautifully told."—Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of The Fatigue Artist
"Carefully researched and documented, Encounters with the Invisible takes the reader on a sweeping journey of a life, although the story rarely leaves Ms. Wall’s bedroom."—K. Kimberly McCleary, President, Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America
Blending personal drama with literary reflection, reportage, and medical history, Dorothy Wall illuminates the conflicts and controversies surrounding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and graphically depicts the way a virus resculpts a life. ... Publishers description.
ISBN0870745042 (alk. paper)Per.Sub.Wall, Dorothy, 1948- -- Health.
SubjectChronic fatigue syndrome -- Patients -- California -- Biography.
Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic -- Personal Narratives.
Add.EntryKlimas, Nancy G., 1954-

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