Artículo:

Politics, Science, and the emergence of a New Disease: The case of chronic fatigue syndrome

Autor:

Leonard A. Jason

Judith A.Richman

Fred Friendberg

Resumen:

The debate occurred 100 years ago about whether neurasthenia was a neurological illness or a psychiatric disorder has reappeared with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).This article examines the controversy by early epidemiological studies led to inaccurate characterizations of CFS

Publicación:

The American Psychologist: Journal of the American Psychological Association

Volúmen:

52

Número:

09

Periodo:

Septiembre 1997

ISSN:

0003066X

SrcID:

0003066X-1997-09.txt