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"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."â€"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."â€"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.
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DOROTHY WALL is coauthor of Finding Your Writer’s Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in such venues as Witness, Sonora Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, and Under the Sun. She has taught at San Francisco State University, U.C. Berkeley Extension, and Napa Valley College. She is a writing consultant in Berkeley, California.
NANCY KLIMAS, MD, is a professor of medicine, psychology, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Miami School of Medicine where she directed one of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Centers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. She works in this country and abroad to bring a better understanding of CFS to clinicians and policy makers.
About the Author
DOROTHY WALL is coauthor of "Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction." Her essays and poems have appeared in such venues as Witness, Sonora Review, Prairie Schooner, and Under the Sun. She is a writing consultant in Berkeley, California.
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- PublisherSouthern Methodist Univ Pr
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0870745042
- ISBN 13 9780870745041
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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