Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic (Revised Edition with New Chapter)

Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic (Revised Edition with New Chapter) - Paperback

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Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic (Revised Edition with New Chapter) - Paperback

Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic (Revised Edition with New Chapter) - Paperback

by Pamela Weintraub
$33.99
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Book Overview

The groundbreaking, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease--the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience--now with a brand new chapter.

When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found an answer to the symptoms that had been plaguing her family for years--but her nightmare had just begun. Almost everything about Lyme disease turned out to be deeply controversial, from the microbe causing the infection, to the length and type of treatment and the kind of practitioner needed.

On one side of the fight, the scientists who first studied Lyme describe a disease transmitted by a deer tick that is hard to catch but easy to cure no matter how advanced the case. On the other side, rebel doctors insist that Lyme and a soup of "co-infections" cause a complicated spectrum of illness often dramatically different - and far more difficult to treat - than the original researchers claim. Instead of just swollen knees and a rash, patients can experience exhaustion, disabling pain, and a "Lyme fog" that leaves them dazed and confused. As patients struggle for answers, once-treatable infections become chronic.

In this nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease, Pamela Weintraub sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today. The most comprehensive book ever written about the past, present and future of Lyme disease, Cure Unknown exposes the ticking clock of a raging epidemic and the vulnerability we all share.

Winner of the American Medical Writers Association Book Award
ISBN9781250044563
Author Pamela Weintraub
PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
GenreBiography and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2013
Edition2
LanguageENG- English
Pages480
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Pamela Weintraub

Keith Harary, Ph.D. has spent decades investigating the issues confronting those who are coping with extraordinary experiences. His research has included extensive laboratory and field research on the physiological and other variables associated with altered states of consciousness, including the development of specialized methods for actively inducing a wide range of altered states. Harary holds a Ph.D. in psychology, with emphases in both clinical counseling and experimental psychology. He has authored or co-authored hundreds of articles and eight books on topics related to perception, altered states of consciousness, personality, and related topics. He is currently Research Director of the Institute for Advanced Psychology in Tiburon, California, where he continues to conduct research in perception and other areas in association with an interdisciplinary consortium of scientists. Pamela Weintraub is a longtime magazine journalist living in New York City and the author of thirteen books. She was formerly the editor-in-chief of Omni.

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