 | Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic by Hillary Johnson
Buy used from: £1.51 Roller coaster account of the US treatment of sufferers. Explains a LOT!
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 | Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis by Richard Webster
Buy used from: £8.92 Solid critique of the forerunner of 'somatization' - hysteria.
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 | Shattered: Life with M.E. by Lynn Michell
Buy used from: £4.48 A devastating illness told by sufferers themselves, including the poor treatment meted out by doctors and the alienation of this misunderstood illness
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 | Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Peggy Munson
Buy new: £100.00 / Used from: £89.82 An anthology of narratives providing further insight into the devastations and injustices suffered by those with ME/CFS
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 | Making Us Crazy: DSM - The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (Psychology/self-help) by Stuart A. Kirk
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £9.98 Excellent critique of the social construction of what counts for 'mental illness'. Not directly applicable to ME/CFS sufferers but useful general reading
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 | Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
Buy used from: £2.71 Brilliant account of the historical construction of physical disease as metaphor for character flaws, among other things. Mirrored in today's treatment of ME sufferers.
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 | The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
Buy new: £11.01 / Used from: £4.99 Historical account of Medicine - once again, explains a LOT
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 | Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and the Manufacture of Mental Illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Martin J. Walker
Buy used from: £8.98 Compelling, searing indictment of the treatment of ME/CFS sufferers in Britain. A must-read.
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 | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by Oliver Sacks
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.74 An account of neurological problems written with wonderful compassion. Provides an exemplar of how ME/CFS (a neurological disease) SHOULD be considered
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 | The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis--Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Jay A. Goldstein
Buy used from: £34.99 Sets out clinical evidence of the physiological abnormalities in ME/CFS. Very important book
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