Ellen Goudsmit’s 1987 paper on McEvedy and Beard: http://www.axfordsabode.org.uk/me/articl02.htm Edit: I know that Behan and his late wife...
I have recently gone through McEvedy and Beard in detail. I am not clear what 'hysteria' is intended to mean. I certainly do not know what the...
...they confirm their apparent approval of the views of McEvedy and Beard for the epidemic forms, but clear themselves by saying that such cases...
...confirmation of what we knew: "However, since the McEvedy and Beard papers were published, the standard psychiatric teaching, and indeed often...
Very true, but there were still a group of doctors supporting ME was a biomedical illness and they even held a symposium in 1978 at the Royal...
Actually it started in 1970 with the PhD thesis that ME is mass hysteria and McEvedy and Beard.
"The links with ME are obvious, since it is now regularly stated that ME is 'caused by'(Wilkinson, 1988) or 'the result of (Shepherd, 1989 a) a...
Out of interest, do you have a link at hand?
Yes, when I interviewed Dr Hyde in Montreal he recounted that McEvedy cognac-soaked meeting (as well as dramatic near-death experience swimming...
@ScottTriGuy I believe that Dr Hyde has written about those events before. As I recall it he previously went further on the subject of his...
Reference List 1. Wessely S: The history of chronic fatigue syndrome. In Straus SE (eds): Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. New York: Marcel Dekker,...
Wasn't this followed with by a trial where you could start with two strands of hair, over the course of the trial grow two more, and then be...
...the condition had been classified as a mental illness by McEvedy and Beard (what else could he do with a name like that?) in 1970, in a...
I sometimes wonder what McEvedy and Beard would make of today's Guardian?
Maybe they called it trials in the heading as in the trials of the PACE trial. They have got it right through the rest of the document. I like...
https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2018/03/22/the-mainstream-medical-community-just-declared-war-on-people-living-with-me/ I...
Actually predates this by 8 years ... McEvedy, and Beard.
...Remember, too, that we've been here before: Ramsay let McEvedy and Beard read his notes, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and they screwed...
...decades, started by Freud and others, and perpetuated by McEvedy and Beard in 1970 with their 'it must be hysteria because most of the...
...One strange fact that I have recently noticed is that McEvedy and Beard announced to the world their expertise on the subject in January 1970...
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