Cure Unknown Inside the Lyme Epidemic

Name: Cure Unknown Inside the Lyme Epidemic
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ISBN: 9780312378127

ISBN-10: 0312378122

ISBN-13: 9780312378127

Edition: 2008

Authors: Pamela Weintraub

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Anbsp;groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease. Pamela Weintraub paints a nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease and sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today.nbsp; She also reveals her personal odyssey through the land of Lyme after she, her husband and their two sons became seriously ill with the disease beginning in the 1990s.nbsp; From the microbe causing the infection and the definition of the disease, to the length and type of treatment…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction: Navigating by Lymelight


Prologue: Second Journey Out



Doors of Perception



Into the Woods



A Place in the Whirlwind



Son of a Preacher Man



Connecticut Genesis



A New Disease and a Ring of Fire



Finding Lyme's Counterculture



Hide in Plain Sight



The Epidemic Spreads



Crossing the Line



The Rocky Road



Then There Were Three



Night Falls Fast



Discovering the Spirochete



The Chasm Widens



How the Lyme World Split in Two



Lost in the Ruins: The Infestation of the Suburbs



The Lyme Diaspora



Mutts Like Us: Lyme Tests and Tribulations



Patients Dispossessed



The Scourge of "Lime" Disease



Peeling the Onion



Family Therapy



Bicycle Boy and Other Lymebrains



A Devastating Realization



Longing for Lyme



A Nantucket Burning: I'm Diagnosed with Babesiosis



Photo Safari



Tick Menagerie: The Coinfections of Lyme Disease



Hole in the Donut: The Fight over Southern Lyme



Restricting Diagnosis and Keeping the Riffraff Out of Lyme



The Long Road Home



Reporting Our Pediatrician



The Lyme Inquisition: Doctors on the Run



A Note from the Underground



Second-Chance Kids



A Search for Answers



Once Bitten: Accepting the Spirochete's Endless Love



Secrets of an Evil Genius: The Evidence for Persistence



Mother Makes Four



The Big Sleep: Our Younger Son Falls Ill



Houston Calling



Putting Treatment to the Test



Busted Flat in Chappaqua



Resurrection



Lyme Disease and Immunity: The Search for the Golden Fleece



How I Cured My Own Lyme Disease



Pay It Forward



A Family Affair



Red-Flagged at Blue Cross: The Role of Managed Care



The Vaccine Connection: Lyme Gets a Business Model



Over and Out, Colorado



The Falmouth Reunion



Getting Dr. Jones



The Never-Ending Story: What Happened to My Family



Starting Over: Don't Get Slymed Again



And the Bands Play On


Notes and References


Index