Through the shadowlands : a science writer's odyssey into an illness science doesn't understand / Julie Rehmeyer.
- Rehmeyer, Julie
- Date:
- [2017]
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Through the shadow-lands
Description
Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to die. She'd 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'd 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.
Publication/Creation
New York : Rodale, [2017]
Physical description
xi, 324 pages ; 23 cm
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Bibliographic information
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineBZP (Rehmeyer)Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781623367657
- 1623367654