Making Sense of Illness

Historical essays about how diseases change their meaning are offered in this book. Each of the diseases or etiologic hypotheses featured has had a controversia... » 

Historical essays about how diseases change their meaning are offered in this book. Each of the diseases or etiologic hypotheses featured has had a controversial and contested history, including: psychosomatic views of ulcerative colitis; 20th-century chronic fatigue syndromes; and Lyme disease. «