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Alison Snyder reports in the latest issue of Lancet on the death, on 3 August 2012, of William Reeves, one-time head of US CDC chronic fatigue syndrome program.
Peter White remembers Reeves: "In the field of CFS, Bill led from the front in delineating and thus legitimising the illness, while being unafraid to examine and integrate biological, psychological, and social factors. He understood that mind and body are indivisible and that understanding both was necessary for this illness, as in all human suffering.”
The article notes that Reeves' research into the "role of personality, behavioural issues, and early life stress. . . seemed to anger many in the patient in the patient community."
Peter White sums up by describing William Reeves as "a man more sinn'd against than sinning."
Read more here:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)62019-4/fulltext
Peter White remembers Reeves: "In the field of CFS, Bill led from the front in delineating and thus legitimising the illness, while being unafraid to examine and integrate biological, psychological, and social factors. He understood that mind and body are indivisible and that understanding both was necessary for this illness, as in all human suffering.”
The article notes that Reeves' research into the "role of personality, behavioural issues, and early life stress. . . seemed to anger many in the patient in the patient community."
Peter White sums up by describing William Reeves as "a man more sinn'd against than sinning."
Read more here:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)62019-4/fulltext