Table of Contents

Contents

• About the Editor
• Contributiors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Doubt and Diagnosis
• Chapter 1. Encounters with the Invisible
• Chapter 2. From What Her Body Thought (ital)
• Chapter 3. When Tiredness Gives Way to Tiredness
• Chapter 4. Object Assembly
• Part II: Atlantis
• Chapter 5. One Window
• Chapter 6. Silent Trespass
• Chapter 7. Prisoner of CFIDS
• Chapter 8. Bittersweet Nightshade
• Chapter 9. Right Where I Am
• Chapter 10. Valley of Shadows: Journal Entries
• Chapter 11. Stealth
• Chapter 12. Roller Coasters
• Part III: Memory and Metaphor
• Chapter 13. Immune Means Memory
• Chapter 14. The Paradox of Lost Fingerprints: Metaphor and the Shaming of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Chapter 15. Fossil Memories
• Chapter 16. In the Shadow of Memory
• Part IV: Synergy and Movement
• Chapter 17. On Life, Death and the Nature of Limbo: Assisted Suicides in the CFIDS Community
• Chapter 18. From Activist to Passivist: Where is the Mass Movement?
• Chapter 19. The Gulf War's Troubling Legacy
• Chapter 20. The Amazing Illness That Doesn't Exist
• Chapter 21. Taking the Rap: Parents, Blame, and Pediatric CFIDS
• Part V: Fate and Faith
• Chapter 22. Kismet
• Chapter 23. Spiritual Healing, Holistic Healing and the White Light Fascists
• Chapter 24. CFIDS, Suffering and the Divine
• Part VI: Love and Alliance
• Chapter 25. CFIDS--A Love Poem
• Chapter 26. What's a Mother to Do?
• Chapter 27. Dating CFIDS
• Chapter 28. Sick Sex Revisited
• Chapter 29. Long Illness
• Index
• Reference Note Included

About the Author

Peggy Munson