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Through the shadowlands : a science writer's odyssey into an illness science doesn't understand

Title
Through the shadowlands : a science writer's odyssey into an illness science doesn't understand / Julie Rehmeyer.
ISBN
9781623367657
1623367654
Publication
New York : Rodale, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xi, 324 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to die. She had spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldn't turn over in her bed. The top specialists in the world were powerless to help, and research on her disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, was at a near standstill. Having exhausted the plausible ideas, Julie turned to an implausible one. Going against both her instincts and her training as a science journalist and mathematician, she followed the advice of strangers she had met on the Internet. Their theory--that mold in her home and possessions was making her sick--struck her as wacky pseudoscience. But they had recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome as severe as hers.
Variant and related titles
Through the shadow-lands
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 24, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324).
Contents
Part 1. Descent
Construction and destruction
Crippled
Doctors
The split between the worlds
The great collapse
The miracle
Alone
Part 2. Solitary
Rage
A life, limited
The circus
An unlikely hypothesis
Part 3. The womb of the earth
Death Valley
The mold tour
Homecoming
An embryonic life
A wake and a baptism
Part 4. Emergence
Connection
The devil disease
Moldy science
Crazy neurological people
Timmy the wood elf
Rebirthday
Psychic science
A Shakespearean ending.
Subjects (Medical)
Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic.
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
Autobiography.
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