An informative book provides facts and refutes myths about a disease that affects three hundred out of every hundred thousand Americans, discussing its origins and symptoms as well as presenting personal accounts from those who have or had suffered from CFS. Reprint.

Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Johnson, Hillary

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Penguin??Books

Recounts the author's experiences in Los Angeles, where she visits the Playboy mansion, interviews pornographic filmmakers, drag queens, and minor celebrities, and makes herself at home in a variety of subcultures

Super Vixens' Dymaxion Lounge

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

St Martins Pr

A tragic but ultimately uplifting look at the profound relationship between the author and her mother, who did the illustrations, describes how Ruth's battle with cancer brought them together as never before.

My Mother Dying

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

St.Martin's Press

When Hillary Johnson learned that her mother, Ruth, had terminal cancer, she left New York City and returned to Minneapolis to care for Ruth in her final years.  While coping with the practical and emotional difficulties such a situation would cause any daughter, she slowly discovered what she had failed to see in the two decades since she'd left home for college: her mother's identity as a woman, independent of the role of mother or wife.My Mother Ruth is a beautifully written and emotionally compelling account of how two woman get to look beyond the role of mother and daughter and see two complex individuals who are given a final chance to truly know one another under the pressure of impending death.

My Mother Ruth

St. Martin's: Griffin

In a masterful effort of investigative reporting, freelance journalist Hillary Johnson reveals for the first time how Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was allowed to grow over the course of a decade into a major public health threat under the disbelieving and ultimately blind eye of the American medical research establishment.

Osler's Web

Random House Value Publishing

In a masterful effort of investigative reporting, freelance journalist Hillary Johnson reveals for the first time how Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was allowed to grow over the course of a decade into a major public health threat under the disbelieving and ultimately blind eye of the American medical research establishment.

Crown

A massive public health crisis that should alarm everyone has been buried for nearly four decades. Since the early 1980s, millions of people around the globe have been stopped in their tracks, their lives seemingly destroyed by a disease so severe it leaves its victims bedridden or housebound for not just years but decades. The evidence points to an infectious virus that has become endemic in the world’s population. Yet--the spread of this disease has been hidden from public view.\nHow could such a thing happen in the late 20th and even the 21st centuries? In 1988, the US Centers for Disease Control buried this pandemic by rebranding the disease “chronic fatigue syndrome.” The correct name, introduced in 1955, was myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME. When a Newsweek headline writer fancifully dubbed the disease “Yuppie Flu,” no one at the CDC intervened to kill the joke. Why would a federal health agency promote such a dangerous, apparently infectious disease as a psychosomatic malady?\nJournalist Hillary Johnson’s The Why: The Historic ME/CFS Call to Arms packs the story of the CDC’s misdeeds and anti-science agenda regarding Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) into 92 jaw-dropping pages. She describes how the agency botched a critical investigation of a large outbreak in 1985 and, unwilling to change course, proceeded to rename the disease, eagerly characterizing sufferers as hysterics and depressives. For years, the agency either ignored or denigrated important scientific findings being made outside its Atlanta headquarters. CDC scientists also diverted money Congress gave the agency to research the disease to pet projects, then lied to Congress about their progress. Find out "why" in The Why. An important, harrowing story for anyone who wants to protect their own health and the health of their children, spouses, extended family and friends.

The Why: The Historic ME/CFS Call To Arms

Hillary Johnson

“A relentless, meticulous, and highly persuasive exposé by a journalist who spent nine years investigating the medical research establishment’s failure to take seriously chronic fatigue syndrome… In a chronology that runs from 1984 to 1994, Johnson crams in fact after telling fact, building up a dismaying picture of a rigid and haughty biomedical research establishment unwilling or unable to respond to the challenge of a multifaceted disease for which a causative agent has yet to be found… A compelling, well-documented account…” —Kirkus Reviews

iUniverse, Inc.

Goes behind the scenes of MTV's reality-based television series, and explains how they were selected

MTV's The Real Real World

Rommelmann, Nancy

Humor & Entertainment

Physical Culture: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Poseidon Pr

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Johnson, Hillary. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Johnson, Hillary

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Johnson, Hillary. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

Super Vixens' Dymaxion Lounge

My Mother Dying

My Mother Ruth

Osler's Web

Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

The Why: The Historic ME/CFS Call To Arms

Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

MTV's The Real Real World

Physical Culture: A Novel