Slippery Syndromes
at 6:14pm on Monday, 25th July 2005
On Wednesday, we heard from Simon Wesseley in the third Demos Science Cafe. He talked about his career spent at the heart of controversies about illnesses that refuse to be understood. He described how arguments over Gulf War Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and a host of others force us to confront the politics of knowing about and intervening in illness.
His analysis suggests that these things can mostly be understood as illnesses of modernity, implying that the explanation is sociological. But one of the attendees reminded us all that bunching all of these things together conceals as much as it reveals.
...will post more when I can remember the dead interesting thing that someone else said.
On Wednesday, we heard from Simon Wesseley in the third Demos Science Cafe. He talked about his career spent at the heart of controversies about illnesses that refuse to be understood. He described how arguments over Gulf War Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and a host of others force us to confront the politics of knowing about and intervening in illness.
His analysis suggests that these things can mostly be understood as illnesses of modernity, implying that the explanation is sociological. But one of the attendees reminded us all that bunching all of these things together conceals as much as it reveals.
...will post more when I can remember the dead interesting thing that someone else said.
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