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Author Wall, Dorothy, 1948-

Title Encounters with the invisible : unseen illness, controversy, and chronic fatigue syndrome / Dorothy Wall ; afterword by Nancy Klimas
Published Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2005

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 MELB  362.1960478 Wal/Ewt  AVAILABLE
Description xxvii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
Series Medical humanities
Medical humanities.
Contents Prologue - listening to Einstein in the dark -- Ch. 1. Encounters with the invisible -- Ch. 2. Seeing -- Ch. 3. Silence -- Ch. 4. That name -- Ch. 5. The erotics of illness -- Ch. 6. Staying home -- Ch. 7. Neurasthenia revised -- Ch. 8. Remedies, advice, and the (dis)information glut -- Ch. 9. Listening -- Ch. 10. Passing -- Ch. 11. Protean phantasmagoria -- Ch. 12. Brain drain -- Ch. 13. The necessity of beauty -- Ch. 14. That name.2 -- Ch. 15. On determination -- Ch. 16. Candida connection -- Ch. 17. Limbo -- Ch. 18. Returning -- Epilogue - body of knowledge -- Afterword / Nancy Klimas
Notes Includes index
Subject Wall, Dorothy, 1948- -- Health.
Chronic fatigue syndrome -- Patients -- California -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2005051665
ISBN 0870745042 alkaline paper
9780870745041