From Paralysis to Fatigue
Author: Edward Shorter
ISBN: 9780029286678
Publisher: Free Press
Year first published: 01 Jan 1993
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback / softback
This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of patients complaining of ailments that express the truths about the culture in which they live.
ISBN: 9780029286678
Publisher: Free Press
Year first published: 01 Jan 1993
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback / softback
This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of patients complaining of ailments that express the truths about the culture in which they live.