• DOI:10.1007/s11673-018-9866-5
Corpus ID: 49677273

Are ME/CFS Patient Organizations “Militant”?

@article{Blease2018AreMP,
  title={Are ME/CFS Patient Organizations “Militant”?},
  author={C. Blease and Keith Geraghty},
  journal={Journal of Bioethical Inquiry},
  year={2018},
  volume={15},
  pages={393-401}
}

• C. Blease, Keith Geraghty
• Published 2018
• Psychology, Medicine, Sociology
• Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a contested illness category. This paper investigates the common claim that patients with ME/CFS—and by extension, ME/CFS patient organizations (POs)—exhibit “militant” social and political tendencies. The paper opens with a history of the protracted scientific disagreement over ME/CFS. We observe that ME/CFS POs, medical doctors, and medical researchers exhibit clear differences in opinion over how to conceptualize this illness… Expand

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