Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Infectious Disease and Therapy) (Hardcover)

~ Straus (Author) "The history of diseases can take two forms..." (more)
Key Phrases: fatigue with neuromuscular, ringed fibers, retroviral tests, Ann Intern Med, Infect Dis, Arthritis Rheum (more...)

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"...This excellent, up-to-date volume on [chronic fatigue syndrome]...is strongly recommended to all physicians, infectious disease specialists, virologists, and immunologists." -- Immunological Investigations


…This excellent, up-to-date volume on [chronic fatigue syndrome]…is strongly recommended to all physicians, infectious disease specialists, virologists, and immunologists.
-Immunological Investigations


…This excellent, up-to-date volume on [chronic fatigue syndrome]…is strongly recommended to all physicians, infectious disease specialists, virologists, and immunologists.
-Immunological Investigations

Product Description

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Infectious Disease and Therapy Series, Volume 14. Reference on the clinical and basic science aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome, including treatment and psychological or psychiatric issues. For clinicians, epidemiologists, and researchers. 27 contributors, 17 U.S.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 488 pages
• Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (June 29, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824791878
• ISBN-13: 978-0824791872
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,238,836 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Huge conflict of interest: edited and written by researchers, executives, and psychiatrist consultants funded by Eli Lilly, July 12, 2005

By	K. Duprey "journalist" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Integrative Approach to Evaluation and Treatment (Paperback)

There is nothing here for patients, scientists or doctors requiring factually accurate biomedical information regarding the organically classified brain disorder ICD-10 G93.3 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).

To understand why the information in this book does not apply to patients with the organic brain disorder Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), readers need to understand a basic principle of scientific medical research.

Organically classified diseases already HAVE medical explanations for symptoms whether or not the exact cause is known.

Patients with organic diseases, by definition alone, do not meet the criteria for psychiatric somatization (psychosomatic) disorders.

And according to the principles of scientific research information based on factually incorrect assumptions and study group selection criteria cannot be extrapolated to organically ill patients.

Nor, for that matter, do beliefs, personalities or behavior cause or perpetuate organic damage caused by active or cyclically reactivated neurotropic (brain/heart) viruses such as HHV-6 and EBV (check PubMed for biomedical studies).

Verification is beyond simple: Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/post viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are exclusively listed under G93.3 on page 494 - photocopies are available to the public.

Many doctors and patients are unaware of the ongoing ideological battle currently raging between psychiatrists over who is actually mentally ill and where mental illness ends and organic disease begins.

Or that adherents of psychiatrist George Engel's "Biopsychosocial" theory are reclassifying many organic diseases, not just G93.3 ME/PVFS/CFS or M79 fibromyalgia, as psychosomatic disorders in an effort to validate their theory.

Looking for a list of these organic disorders? Check the list of patient medical disorders covered under the lawsuits filed and won by states attorneys nationwide against UnumProvident Disability Insurance conglomerate or read biopsychosocial psychosomatic research by AJ Barsky.

Readers interested in accurate, applicable psychological information on CFS and fibromyalgia need to read books by longtime CDC and NIH researchers Dr. Leonard Jason and Renee Taylor also on Amazon.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good for a Laugh, November 15, 2009

By	Justin Reilly (Lafayette, CO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Integrative Approach to Evaluation and Treatment (Paperback)

Stephen Strauss, Peter Manu, Susan Abbey, Simon Wesseley; it's a veritable who's who of sadistic charlatans long ago disgraced and throughly repudiated by the top authorities on ME. Recommended for fans of fiction and nonsense.

Internist Paul Cheney, MD, PhD, the world's foremost clinican and top researcher on ME said of Straus' findings in his most (self-)publicized study, "it's an absolute lie." Internist Dan Peterson, also one of the world's foremost clinicians and researchers on ME said "Stephen Straus is a snake." Straus was still doing grand rounds in the mid- late 90's saying possible retroviral association with ME made no sense because retroviruses cause neurological, cognitive, immunological and endocrine pathology, which aren't prominent features of ME. These are in fact the central, disabling features of the disease. And of course quite a few bench scientists have found retroviral involvement since 1986, most recently Dan Peterson finding 95-98% of studied ME patients with antibodies to XMRV.

1 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Straus's work exhibits pure genius!, January 21, 1999

By A Customer

Dr. Straus presents the indisputable facts about CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) with unsurpassed clarity. While it clearly shows a scholarly understanding of the topic, Straus's work serves to answer the questions of the layman and the scientist alike.