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Drawing on her own medical experience as well as fifteen years of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, Meghan O'Rourke's incisive new work speaks to an urgent subject: the epidemic scale of autoimmune disease in America-even greater with the advent of "Long Covid"-and where we go from here.
Blending lyricism, erudition, candor, and empathy, O'Rourke reveals crucial, subtle complexities about the American struggle with chronic illness and autoimmune conditions, and offers new reasons for hope, as well as a new framework for thinking about infectious disease and autoimmune response going forward. Confronting everything from the challenges of diagnosis and treatment to the limitations posed by our traditional structures of medical care and the particular impact on various demographic populations, O'Rourke brings her deep and disparate talents and roles-critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient-together into one unified project, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier.
Story Locale: New York, England, Vietnam
Drawing on her own medical experience as well as fifteen years of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, Meghan O'Rourke's incisive new work speaks to an urgent subject: the epidemic scale of autoimmune disease in America-even greater with the advent of "Long Covid"-and where we go from here.
Blending lyricism, erudition, candor, and empathy, O'Rourke reveals crucial, subtle complexities about the American struggle with chronic illness and autoimmune conditions, and offers new reasons for hope, as well as a new framework for thinking about infectious disease and autoimmune response going forward. Confronting everything from the challenges of diagnosis and treatment to the limitations posed by our traditional structures of medical care and the particular impact on various demographic populations, O'Rourke brings her deep and disparate talents and roles-critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient-together into one unified project, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier.
Story Locale: New York, England, Vietnam
RELEVANCE: If every age has its representative signature disease, ours will be the entire category of autoimmune diseases that includes chronic fatigue syndrome, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, dysautonomia / POTS, fibromyalgia, and now, on a scale that is beyond epidemic, "long COVID."
STANDS APART FROM THE COMPETITION: There will be many books about COVID by scientists, journalists, and patients. This is not that. O'Rourke's book is a moving hybrid of literary memoir and cultural criticism, a personal, emotional, insightful, comforting voice to help readers feel less alone, whatever their chronic condition and questions, and help reframe their thinking about medicine going forward.
TIMING: O'Rourke had been working on this book for years already before Covid hit. She has spent the last 12 months learning and synthesizing how COVID fits into the larger topic of chronic illness, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders. She comes to this moment with a broad background.
ACCESSIBLE, PERSONAL READ : O'Rourke's emotional personal story of living with illness that has affected her home and work life grounds and humanizes the science and medicine she presents. Hers is a comforting, lyrical, personal voice.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Krankheiten |
| Genre: | Medizin |
| Produktart: | Ratgeber |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 336 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781594633799 |
| ISBN-10: | 1594633797 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | O'Rourke, Meghan |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 231 x 155 x 31 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Meghan O'Rourke |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.03.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,528 kg |
RELEVANCE: If every age has its representative signature disease, ours will be the entire category of autoimmune diseases that includes chronic fatigue syndrome, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, dysautonomia / POTS, fibromyalgia, and now, on a scale that is beyond epidemic, "long COVID."
STANDS APART FROM THE COMPETITION: There will be many books about COVID by scientists, journalists, and patients. This is not that. O'Rourke's book is a moving hybrid of literary memoir and cultural criticism, a personal, emotional, insightful, comforting voice to help readers feel less alone, whatever their chronic condition and questions, and help reframe their thinking about medicine going forward.
TIMING: O'Rourke had been working on this book for years already before Covid hit. She has spent the last 12 months learning and synthesizing how COVID fits into the larger topic of chronic illness, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders. She comes to this moment with a broad background.
ACCESSIBLE, PERSONAL READ : O'Rourke's emotional personal story of living with illness that has affected her home and work life grounds and humanizes the science and medicine she presents. Hers is a comforting, lyrical, personal voice.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Krankheiten |
| Genre: | Medizin |
| Produktart: | Ratgeber |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 336 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781594633799 |
| ISBN-10: | 1594633797 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | O'Rourke, Meghan |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 231 x 155 x 31 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Meghan O'Rourke |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.03.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,528 kg |
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