Product Description
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
Author: Suzanne O'Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Refugee children in Sweden who sleep for months on end, high-school students in upstate New York seized by contagious convulsions, and US embassy staff in Cuba struck by headaches and memory loss after strange night-time sounds are among the twenty-first century's most baffling medical mysteries. Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan travels from Kazakhstan and Nicaragua to Texas and Colombia to investigate such outbreaks, exploring how these psychosomatic illnesses are shaped by culture as much as by biology and asking who gets to decide what counts as a disease.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, it is a humane and unsettling scientific investigation.
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