Through the shadowlands : a science writer's odyssey into an illness science doesn't understand
Rehmeyer, Julie2017
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Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to die. She{u2019}d spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldn{u2019}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{u2019}d met on the Internet. Their theory{u2015}that mold in her home and possessions was making her sick{u2015}struck her as wacky pseudoscience. But they had recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome as severe as hers.
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Author:
Rehmeyer, Julie, author
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Imprint:
New York Rodale, [2017]©2017
Collation:
xi, 324 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
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.
ISBN:
97816233676571623367654
Dewey class:
616.0478B
Language:
English
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BRN:
330165