Product Description

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a complex, debilitating disorder, yet few current scientific biomedical books have appeared on the subject. Many recent, biological discoveries have helped to better understand the physiology of this disease, and to improve the specificity of its diagnosis by laboratory tests. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Biological Approach summarizes the most recent advances made in this field and discusses insights that support CFS as a distinct and specific physical disease. Because of the multifactorial aspects of the disease, the book addresses various fields of the biomedical sciences, such as protein biochemistry, virology, and pharmacology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1021432 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 312 pages

From the Back Cover
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a complex, debilitating disorder, yet few current scientific biomedical books are available on the subject. The nonspecific symptoms, lack of diagnostic tests, and uncertainty as to the cause or causes of CFS make the disease that much more baffling. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Biological Approach represents a monumental step in the journey to a unified understanding of CFS and establishes a scientific basis for treatment.

The book provides a rare treatise on current state of the art with respect to the worldwide scientifically documented basis of CFS and acknowledges the many as yet undiscovered or undefined pathogenic mechanisms involved in the production of symptoms. The authors, reflecting their clinical and basic research backgrounds, outline future research imperatives and direct clinicians toward appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Because of the multifactorial aspects of the disease, the book addresses various fields of the biomedical sciences, such as protein biochemistry, virology, and pharmacology. Many recent, biological discoveries help us better understand the physiology of this disease and improve the specificity of its diagnosis by laboratory tests. This book summarizes these advances and discusses insights that support CFS as a distinct and specific physical disease. Overall, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Biological Approach provides a firm foundation understanding of CFS, opening the way for better diagnosis and design of new therapies

Customer Reviews

Very Good Explanation of a Biological Sickness
This book is one of the most complete with a serious scientific aproach to this syndrome. It proves that people with CFS/ME are ill and that in some case the cause of the syndrome is know but just simple ignore by consultants. When the syndrome is caused by any of these causes, it can be treated. Unfortunately there is still a lot of research to be done be able to cure all the cases of CFS/ME, but at least it is worth for a patient to check if any of these causes might apply to his case.


The book is not for everybody. You must have a very good knowledge of biology to understand. There are summaries of this book adapted to patiens, on some webpages of CFS/ME associations in the internet. The author is the editor of the Chronic Fatigue Magazine, the specialist magazine of doctors focusing on the subject, and a European authority in the matter.