Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes

ISBN-13: 9780192630469 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 448 str.

Matthew Hotopf; Simon Wesseley; Michael Sharpe

Opis

Chronic fatigue and its syndromes presents a comprehensive review of t he problem of chronic fatigue, mixing medical, psychological, social, and historical perspectives. The book examines the historical origins of CFS, considering the epidemiology, and the various aetiological the ories for the condition - viral, immunological, psychological, psychia tric, and neurological. The book concludes with a clinical section dis cussing the assessment and treatment of CFS. Throughout, the authors a rgue that chronic fatigue and its various syndromes cannot easily be p igeon holed into physical or psychological categories, and that the am biguous nature of the illness actually provides us with a valuable cha nce to explore contemporary attitudes to sickness and health, one not offered by better defined or classified disorders.

Recenzje

...they deliver a lucid and virtually comprehensive volume that manages at once to explain complex disciplines to educated lay readers while articulating for the specialist the very special needs of those who suffer these syndromes...