Thanks, night song. Will take that on board as well.
Yes, a very well-presented video. I'd add a few more - hopefully constructive - comments to the ones Robert made (which I also agree with): (a)...
The focus on McEvedy and Beard is misguided. Most laymen will pick out the phrases that read badly to modern ears. Many physicians will have a...
...appeared in a reconsideration of the episode by McEvedy and Beard (BMJ, 3 January 1970). They wrote: “The occurrence of a mass hysterical...
...lynching rally or a belief that everyone has polio. McEvedy and Beard were suggesting that there was a meme of belief by the patients that...
I think that is highly plausible. They thought they were studying the phenomenon of 'hysterical' chronic fatigue aka ME/CFS but made the mistake...
I wonder if McEvedy and Beard would have been interested in the Royal Free outbreak if there had not been a number of cases of persisting illness...
This is probably the perfect reply to post.!
But that does not invalidate hs observation. The account is of what was written in the notes at the time. McE and B identified patterns of...
McEvedy was a junior doctor who wrote his Royal Free outbreak paper as his PhD thesis, without ever having examined a patient, and Beard was his...
When I first started to read about ME/CFS (initially on forums), McE and B came up in my reading quite early on and I was shocked by their...
I agree that us mentioning McEvedy and Beard in articles like this might well strengthen people's association between ME/CFS and psychosomatic...
...it is time people stopped dredging up this stuff about McEvedy and Beard, as if it was relevant to ME/CFS, when it was about the acute RFH...
...not. There is still a lingering confusion relating to McEvedy and Beard and ME that may be relevant. The clinical presentation of the acute...
...And as I mentioned in my Qeios piece, that means that McEvedy and Beard's account has nothing to do with ME/CFS being psychological or not, it...
...the apparently irrelevant reference to Acheson and McEvedy and Beard that are targeted specifically to address very particular concerns. The...
As an editor (something I do have expertise in), I should probably make some comments, but I feel very nervous about doing so. I can see the...
...glandular fever... and need it be said, hysteria’. McEvedy and Beard were perplexed, as the case for hysteria had not been examined and they...
...much to do with ME/CFS as we now understand it. When McEvedy and Beard claimed that neurological signs were psychiatric they were referring to...
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