Written by a cross section of men and women woven together by a common thread, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a collection of personal essays and poems about the excruciating toll that CFS takes on the lives of its victims and their families. The daily struggles CFS sufferers go through to maintain a quality of life while the illness usurps physical and emotional strength, along with their battles against a sometimes ignorant and insensitive medical community, are starkly and candidly told. For those with CFS, their loved ones, care givers, and health…mehr
Written by a cross section of men and women woven together by a common thread, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a collection of personal essays and poems about the excruciating toll that CFS takes on the lives of its victims and their families. The daily struggles CFS sufferers go through to maintain a quality of life while the illness usurps physical and emotional strength, along with their battles against a sometimes ignorant and insensitive medical community, are starkly and candidly told. For those with CFS, their loved ones, care givers, and health practitioners, Stricken will teach, support, and offer hope and enlightenment.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Contents * About the Editor * Contributiors * Foreword * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part I: Doubt and Diagnosis * Chapter 1. Encounters with the Invisible * Chapter 2. From What Her Body Thought (ital) * Chapter 3. When Tiredness Gives Way to Tiredness * Chapter 4. Object Assembly * Part II: Atlantis * Chapter 5. One Window * Chapter 6. Silent Trespass * Chapter 7. Prisoner of CFIDS * Chapter 8. Bittersweet Nightshade * Chapter 9. Right Where I Am * Chapter 10. Valley of Shadows: Journal Entries * Chapter 11. Stealth * Chapter 12. Roller Coasters * Part III: Memory and Metaphor * Chapter 13. Immune Means Memory * Chapter 14. The Paradox of Lost Fingerprints: Metaphor and the Shaming of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome * Chapter 15. Fossil Memories * Chapter 16. In the Shadow of Memory * Part IV: Synergy and Movement * Chapter 17. On Life, Death and the Nature of Limbo: Assisted Suicides in the CFIDS Community * Chapter 18. From Activist to Passivist: Where is the Mass Movement? * Chapter 19. The Gulf War's Troubling Legacy * Chapter 20. The Amazing Illness That Doesn't Exist * Chapter 21. Taking the Rap: Parents, Blame, and Pediatric CFIDS * Part V: Fate and Faith * Chapter 22. Kismet * Chapter 23. Spiritual Healing, Holistic Healing and the White Light Fascists * Chapter 24. CFIDS, Suffering and the Divine * Part VI: Love and Alliance * Chapter 25. CFIDS--A Love Poem * Chapter 26. What's a Mother to Do? * Chapter 27. Dating CFIDS * Chapter 28. Sick Sex Revisited * Chapter 29. Long Illness * Index * Reference Note Included
Contents * About the Editor * Contributiors * Foreword * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part I: Doubt and Diagnosis * Chapter 1. Encounters with the Invisible * Chapter 2. From What Her Body Thought (ital) * Chapter 3. When Tiredness Gives Way to Tiredness * Chapter 4. Object Assembly * Part II: Atlantis * Chapter 5. One Window * Chapter 6. Silent Trespass * Chapter 7. Prisoner of CFIDS * Chapter 8. Bittersweet Nightshade * Chapter 9. Right Where I Am * Chapter 10. Valley of Shadows: Journal Entries * Chapter 11. Stealth * Chapter 12. Roller Coasters * Part III: Memory and Metaphor * Chapter 13. Immune Means Memory * Chapter 14. The Paradox of Lost Fingerprints: Metaphor and the Shaming of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome * Chapter 15. Fossil Memories * Chapter 16. In the Shadow of Memory * Part IV: Synergy and Movement * Chapter 17. On Life, Death and the Nature of Limbo: Assisted Suicides in the CFIDS Community * Chapter 18. From Activist to Passivist: Where is the Mass Movement? * Chapter 19. The Gulf War's Troubling Legacy * Chapter 20. The Amazing Illness That Doesn't Exist * Chapter 21. Taking the Rap: Parents, Blame, and Pediatric CFIDS * Part V: Fate and Faith * Chapter 22. Kismet * Chapter 23. Spiritual Healing, Holistic Healing and the White Light Fascists * Chapter 24. CFIDS, Suffering and the Divine * Part VI: Love and Alliance * Chapter 25. CFIDS--A Love Poem * Chapter 26. What's a Mother to Do? * Chapter 27. Dating CFIDS * Chapter 28. Sick Sex Revisited * Chapter 29. Long Illness * Index * Reference Note Included
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