- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; 1 edition (1 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312378122
- ISBN-13: 978-0312378127
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 18.3 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 122,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Pamela Weintraub's book is compelling, clear and troubling."
-Patti Adcroft, editorial director of "Discover" magazine
"In "Cure, Unknown," Pamela Weintraub has produced both the definitive book about Lyme disease and associated disorders and a survivor's account of a grueling medical odyssey. Weintraub is a masterful science writer and storyteller, and she tackles the quarrels and quagmires surrounding this baffling illness with intelligence and pathos. This is an important and unforgettable book, destined to make a lasting contribution to the field of investigative health journalism."
-Kaja Perina, editor in chief of "Psychology Today"
"" "A thoroughly researched and well-written account of the disease's controversial history." --Jane Brody, "New York Times" "Pam Weintraub, veteran science writer, weaves personal narrative with hard-hitting investigative journalism to bring the underground epidemic of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases up from under theradar." -Rebecca Wells, author of "Ya-Yas in Bloom "and "Divine Secrets ""of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.""" "" "" "I sometimes wonder if the only investigative writers who will possess the necessary temerity to remove the white gloves and tackle these putative experts to the ground will be those, like Weintraub and thelate Randy Shilts, whose personal experience demands that they follow the rocky trail that leads to the truth." -Hillary Johnson, author of "Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome""Epidemic""" "" "" "Millions suffering from symptoms of a mysterious disease need suffer confusion and loss no longer. If you want to know the real story behind Lyme disease and how to find your way back to health, read this book." -Mark Hyman, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller, "UltraMetabolism.""" "" "" "Science journalism at its best." --Amiram Katz, MD, Clinical Faculty, Neurology Department, Yale School of Medicine "Weintraub turns a tragic yet eye-opening experience intoa
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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. 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.From the microbe causing the infection and the definition of the disease, to the length and type of treatment and the kind of practitioner needed, Lyme is a hotbed of contention. With a CDC-estimated 200,000-plus new cases of Lyme disease a year, it has surpassed both AIDS and TB as the fastest-spreading infectious disease in the U.S. Yet alarmingly, in many cases, because the disease often eludes blood tests and not all patients exhibit the classic "bulls-eye" rash and swollen joints, doctors are woefully unable or unwilling to diagnose Lyme. When that happens, once-treatable infections become chronic, inexorably disseminating to cause disabling conditions that may never be cured.The most comprehensive book ever written about the past, present and future of Lyme disease, this exposes the ticking clock of a raging epidemic.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There is just no doubt; if you have any connection to or interest in Lyme Disease you must read this book.
I recommend reading reviews on amazon.com from a largely US readership; they say what I would if I felt eloquent enough ! The clarification Pamela Weintraub gives on the nature of this bacteria , the impact it can have on human lives and the varying opinions regarding treatment is outstanding. Pamela Weintraub is a scientific journalist and her work is both beautifully written, impossible to put down in fact, and carefully referenced. Although this book charts the science and politics of Lyme Disease in the USA , the global nature of scientific research , of medical and pharmaceutical big business makes it pertinent to us all. I find it hard to express how strongly this book has affected me: I feel informed of ongoing research into Lyme right up to Spring 2008 (from an allopathic and traditional viewpoint only, no alternative approaches considered in this book) ; I feel slightly wiser and thoroughly concerned about how aspects of the human world we live in work. Both horrified and hopeful. Enough of my attempt. Read the reviews on amazon.com, read the book.
I recommend reading reviews on amazon.com from a largely US readership; they say what I would if I felt eloquent enough ! The clarification Pamela Weintraub gives on the nature of this bacteria , the impact it can have on human lives and the varying opinions regarding treatment is outstanding. Pamela Weintraub is a scientific journalist and her work is both beautifully written, impossible to put down in fact, and carefully referenced. Although this book charts the science and politics of Lyme Disease in the USA , the global nature of scientific research , of medical and pharmaceutical big business makes it pertinent to us all. I find it hard to express how strongly this book has affected me: I feel informed of ongoing research into Lyme right up to Spring 2008 (from an allopathic and traditional viewpoint only, no alternative approaches considered in this book) ; I feel slightly wiser and thoroughly concerned about how aspects of the human world we live in work. Both horrified and hopeful. Enough of my attempt. Read the reviews on amazon.com, read the book.
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161 of 168 people found the following review helpful
Doctor recommended, a compelling read!
12 Jun 2008
Format:Hardcover
As a California physician, I have found myself diagnosing Lyme disease in an increasing number of patients who come to me with vague, multi-system complaints, but certain consistent patterns: living, working or playing in outdoor brush or field areas (gardening, golf, hiking, camping)is the first, but many have only a little outdoor exposure. Second, complaints of the slow onset of stiff, aching joints that get better and worse, sore muscles, that spasm, tingle and turn numb off and on, headaches and fatigue, problems with sleep, an up and down course that slowly gets worse. Pamela Weintraub, a professional writer and editor, tells her story of her family's move to a rural New York community as healthy active people, only to have all four family members contract Lyme disease in the early 90's, and face not only the disability of this infection but also the confusing double talk of a medical community in denial. She tells not only her story but those of others, and in the telling reveals the difficulties in getting an accurate diagnosis, in finding a doctor to believe and treat the patient, and in being able emotionally and financially to continue the treatment until the disease is resolved. If you are a patient with Lyme disease, perhaps you will learn some things you didn't know before. If you are someone who has believed that perhaps Lyme disease is a myth, or that the people who have it are exaggerating, this is the book for you. If you are a physician, and have quoted the Infectious Disease Society of America's treatment guidelines to a suffering patient to explain why you will not treat them, or will only treat them for three weeks- this is the book for you. Those of us who have Lyme disease, or treat Lyme disease, know it to be as devastating and disabling as a HIV infection, and in many cases, as difficult to cure. Give this book to doctors, to journalists, to scout leaders who take kids into the woods, to your friends who go camping, gardening, horseback riding; to your friends with furry pets, or those who enjoy the deer in their yards. We have a serious growing epidemic in this country, affecting young and old. Let's wake ourselves up to proper treatment and prevention. Dr. Tedde M. Rinker, Redwood City, California
49 of 52 people found the following review helpful
A Must Read for All Parents
18 Jun 2008
Format:Hardcover
I'm not a doctor, nor a medical researcher. But I am a parent who's been fighting for the life of my teenage daughter who has now been diagnosed with Lyme Disease + 2 co-infections. I have a biology degree and have been through a lot of illnesses myself, but I've never seen anything like the story of Lyme. This book is a must-read for all parents. It is a fact-based narrative that tells it like it is, from the political in-fighting in the medical community to the important research that's not getting the attention it should. And the stories it tells about those infected with Lyme are mesmerizing. We fight for a diagnosis, then we fight for treatment. If my family wasn't living this story ourselves, I'd think this was a Stephen King novel.
39 of 42 people found the following review helpful
The New Tuskegee
12 Jun 2008
Format:Hardcover
Superb book that reads like a scientific who-done-it. Rarely has Lyme Disease been as accurately presented in the variety of symptoms, treatments and policies. But most of all it describes a heartless medical bureaucracy that sacrificed thousands of families into bankruptcy, permanent illness and even death to satisfy insurance company lobbyists. Lyme is the Tuskegee experiment of this century.
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