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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 questions are why Beard put his name to it, how it came to be published before anaysis of the collected data can have been properly taken place, and...

It may be significant that I came across a reference to treatment by multidisciplinary team when reading about illness behaviour from the early 1980's. I had the distinct impression that this was how the idea was introduced into ME. Of course, if you have biopsychosocial illness you may require...

It was very pescient of Acheson et al to define a disease which could only be diagnosed with technology invented about thirty years later.

My initial impression is that it is strange that the 1973 paper, and the apparent aanomalous eidence presented, was not referred. Not that it would help the case for hysteria, but for the sake of completeness. I think it is also unhelpful that the RFH outbreak is almost never viewed in...

No, but it has an effect on the comparative cost/benefit anaysis.

That may depend on the amount of wastage. There have already been two reports that I have seen of refrigeration failure leading to loss of product.

Perhaps that is a question of whether people are accountable for their opinions or their behaviour, and the extent to which is is presumed that their opinions guide their behaviour.

It is becoming increasingly odd to see these proposals for cognitive behaviour therapy without any specifics as to the cognitions or behaviours to be addressed, or or the details of the therapy . I suppose they'll think of something.

There is a view that that was an allegory about the dollar, the gold standard and the silver standard, so the meeting is not inappropriate.

I used to think this ptom was highly significant but I have read lately that it can be a symptom of hysteria or conversion disorder. No. I don't believe it either.

That must be the condition of failed Type A personalities.

it seems that psychiatrists are supposed to know about science. This paper was written by J K Wing in 1979. jrsocmed00285-0014.pdf (nih.gov) The concept of disease in psychiatry' Professor J K Wing MD FRCPsych MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute ofPsychiatry De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF...

Thanks Mike. I have edited the post. My minder is out today.

I thought it might be useful to post the link to the original 1956 Lancet article, presumed written by Acheson, suggesting the name benign myalgic encephalomyelitis. This is qute often referred to but rarely seen. A New Clinical Entity? (1956). The Lancet, 267(6926), 789–790...

It would be hard to see how the BPS crowd could object to this. If you read Kleinman and much of the anthropological outpourings from Harvard and elsewhere in the 1980s this was what amounted to "Science"

You have to feel sorry for "ME". So much is expected of it. Has to describe all cases of a particular acute infection, all analogous acute infections, the chronic conditions arising from those original cases and all analagous cases-some more analogous than others. Covid 19 has it easy in comparison.

I noticed that she when using dictionary definitions she included one which incorporated th word "knowledge". So that is all quite clear then.

Sounds similar to "pervasive refusal syndrome". Perhaps placing children face down in swimming pools was the fashionable treatment of 1988.

I see now where I went wrong. I thougt that people wishing to persuade patients that their symptoms were not psychological in origin would not overtly use the concepts of Freud. Ah, well...

Was it part of the "sick role" introduced by Parsons in the early 1950's? I'm fairly sure it was referred to as unoriginal in the early 60's.