Waiting For Superman

One Family's Struggle to Survive – and Cure – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Tracie White (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2021 | Main
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-911630-61-6 (ISBN)

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The gripping story of an acclaimed geneticist who has put his career aside to find a cure for chronic fatigue syndrome, the disease killing his son.

For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, eat or speak. His diagnosis? The mysterious disease myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) which affects 20 million people around the world who largely suffer in silence because the condition is little known and much misunderstood.

Waiting for Superman follows Whitney's father, groundbreaking geneticist Ron Davis, as he uncovers new possibilities for treatments and potentially a cure. At its heart, this book is about more than just cutting-edge research or a race to find an answer - it's about the lengths to which a parent will go to save their child's life.

Tracie White is an award-winning journalist and a science writer for Stanford University. Her work has also appeared in Salon, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more. She graduated from U.C Berkley and has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Aptos, California.

1: The House 2: The Invisible Patient 3: The Adventure 4: A Mysterious Diagnosis 5: Rocket Boy 6: Blood Trails 7: Raggedy Ann Syndrome 8: In Search of Lost Time 9: The Map 10: The Heartbreaker 11: Vindication 12: The Superman

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 235 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
Themenwelt	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Anamnese / Körperliche Untersuchung
ISBN-10	1-911630-61-X / 191163061X
ISBN-13	978-1-911630-61-6 / 9781911630616
Zustand	Neuware