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

Name: Cure Unknown Inside the Lyme Epidemic (Revised Edition with New Chapter)
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ISBN: 9781250044563

ISBN-10: 1250044561

ISBN-13: 9781250044563

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Pamela Weintraub

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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…

Book details

List price: $33.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.14" long x 1.29" tall
Weight: 0.902
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



A Report from the Lymelands, 2009



A Report from the Lymelands, 2013


Notes and References


Index