Through the shadowlands, a science writer's odyssey into an illness science doesn't understand, Julie Rehmeyer
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Through the shadowlands, a science writer's odyssey into an illness science doesn't understand, Julie Rehmeyer
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324)
resource.biographical
autobiography
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no index present
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non fiction
Main title
Through the shadowlands
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bibliography
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987024470
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Julie Rehmeyer
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a science writer's odyssey into an illness science doesn't understand
Summary
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
Table Of 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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Through the shadow-lands
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- Myalgic encephalomyelitis + Patients -- Biography
- Rehmeyer, Julie -- Health
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic fatigue syndrome + Patients -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Chronic fatigue syndrome -- Popular works
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
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- Myalgic encephalomyelitis + Patients -- Biography
- Rehmeyer, Julie -- Health
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic fatigue syndrome + Patients -- Biography
- Autobiographies
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- Chronic fatigue syndrome -- Popular works
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