Encounters With the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Wall, Dorothy

ISBN 10: 0870745042 / ISBN 13: 9780870745041

Published by Southern Methodist Univ Pr, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Encounters With the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870745042
• ISBN 13: 9780870745041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The author weaves a history of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) with her personal experience with CFS, detailing her frustration dealing with extreme exhaustion, debilitating symptoms, and the lack of a definitive diagnosis.

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 asWitness, 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.