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

Johnson, Hillary

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9780140263473: Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

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ISBN 10: 0140263470 ISBN 13: 9780140263473

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1997

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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.

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ul effort of investigative reporting, freelance journalist Hillary Johnson reveals for the first time how Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was allowed to grow over the course of a decade into a major public health threat under the disbelieving and ultimately blind eye of the American medical research establishment.

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.

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