...sure what the status of 'ME' was by 1983. That was after McEvedy and Beard and presumably after the interest in enteroviruses had largely...
...of misogyny in the medical profession especially as the diagnosis is inferred rather than proven. Just awful, it smacks of McEvedy and Beard.
Fascinating history. There were reportedly several cases in LA in the early 1930s. Can't look that up right now to note the link.
That was amajor part of it. How many PhD students get their theses published in two parts in the BMJ 's first edition of the new decade (For those...
I've just started listening to this, and have listened to the first two episodes. It's absolutely excellent and seems to cover a lot of ground...
The fact that it has been a default explanation for several decades affecting tens of millions really puts a dent in that claim. It's true that...
...that claim might be based. It might be recalled that McEvedy and Beard claimed that the case for hysteria had not had a fair hearing. This...
Where pathophysiology is concerned, the UK BPS psych school* initially adopted the grotesque position espoused by McEvedy & Beard(1970), that...
The Lancet article of the 19th of January 1991 was a direct influence on Wesseley and Sharpe's dutch co-author and colleague Bleijenberg. Although...
"David J Black explores the dangers of orthodoxy in the first in a four-part medico-legal series. “Orthodoxy” wrote Bertrand Russell “is the...
Completely agree with you Joan, well said.
...patients as 'theirs'. It has been seductive to buy into McEvedy and Beard's speculation rather than face the difficulties posed by uncertainty,...
Yes, it is astonishing. I find it hard to hold McEvedy responsible for what appears to have beena rather poor piece of research. The interesting...
If I can chip in here for a second I'm slightly surprised that there was so little interest (over the years) in the RFH story. Me and my colleague...
...medical records from the time, and the 1970 paper by McEvedy and Beard that claimed the outbreak was epidemic hysteria. Results: 'Twenty-seven...
...name the contemporaneous documents suggest otherwise. McEvedy and Beard seem only to have been playing with the problem. If there were doubts...
Starts from the Beard Mcevedy/ neurasthenia stance. 2 papers cited: one based on a survey done in Canada 2000/2001 the other " This material is...
If I can expand a little on my recent reply I'd add that - and I'm rather using another date for convenience here - the press/media is broadly...
...long and illustrious history in medicine. * The 1970s, McEvedy and Beard made up mass hysteria to explain the Royal free hospital outbreak...
...an intriguing web. That Easton article was published shortly after the third of the McEvedy and Beard papers. As they sat, more research is...
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