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The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness (Hardcover)
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The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness (Hardcover)
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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 'To
compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it
. . . I finished it feeling thrillingly unsettled, and wishing
there was more.' James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'A study of
diseases that we sometimes say are 'all in the mind', and an
explanation of how unfair that characterisation is.' Tom Whipple,
The Times Books of the Year In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep
for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school
students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba,
employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing
strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the
most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century,
as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them
within the boundaries of medical science and - more crucially - to
treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a
particular type of psychosomatic illness: medical disorders that
are influenced as much by the idiosyncratic aspects of individual
cultures as they are by human biology. Inspired by a poignant
encounter with the sleeping refugee children of Sweden, Wellcome
Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan travels the world to
visit other communities who have also been subject to outbreaks of
so-called 'mystery' illnesses. From a derelict post-Soviet mining
town in Kazakhstan, to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua via an oil
town in Texas, to the heart of the Maria Mountains in Colombia,
O'Sullivan hears remarkable stories from a fascinating array of
people, and attempts to unravel their complex meaning while asking
the question: who gets to define what is and what isn't an illness?
Reminiscent of the work of Oliver Sacks, Stephen Grosz and Henry
Marsh, The Sleeping Beauties is a moving and unforgettable
scientific investigation with a very human face.
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