Columbia University "Year In Review: Top Research Stories of 2015

[Never Give Up]

Study Traces Biological Origins of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

"Researchers from the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health identified distinct immune changes in people with chronic fatigue syndrome, providing evidence that the disease is a biological illness rather than a psychological one."

Well said.

It made the cut with a lot of other impressive work.

 

[minkeygirl]

Here's the article

http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/12/14/top-research-stories-of-2015/

And link to the CFS piece

http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/b...es-biological-basis-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/

 

[Never Give Up]

And no mention of bathing!

 

[Asa]

Hysteries (1998), Columbia University Press:

This provocative and illuminating book charts the persistence of a cultural phenomenon. Tales of alien abduction, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome, and the resurgence of repressed memories in psychotherapy are just a few of the signs that we live in an age of hysterical epidemics…

Hysterias, she shows, are always with us, a kind of collective coping mechanism for changing times; all that differs are names and labels, and at times of crisis, individual hysterias can become contagious. Insightful and sensitive, filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, Hystories is a gift of good sense from one of our best critics...

Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and professor of English at Princeton University. Hailed by the New York Times as ‘one of the country's most renowned feminist critics,’…

It's long past time for Columbia to include a caveat -- in Hysteries' description and within the book itself -- that declares Showalter's medical claims to be false.

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/hystories/9780231104593

http://www.amazon.com/Hystories-Hysteria-Culture-Elaine-Showalter/dp/0330346709/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=4137PG8Z3RL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR111,160_&refRID=1B0V4ZN4NJE52S7F3T3H

As recently as 2013/2014, some Amazon reviewers still believe Showalter's CFS claims.

 

[Izola]

Maybe Showalter will be abducted by Aliens who cause her to have hysterical paralysis.
Publish or perish, no matter by what means. First I saw a blurb about her book I used 4 days worth of bad words. iz