{"product_id":"the-sleeping-beauties-and-other-stories-of-mystery-illness-paperback","title":"The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eStore Name: Online Store\u003cbr\u003eProduct Condition: Good As New\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Nil\u003cbr\u003eExpiry date: Nil\u003cbr\u003eWarranty date: Nil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Type: Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A study of diseases that we sometimes say are 'all in the mind', and an explanation of how unfair that characterisation is.' – Tom Whipple,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBooks of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'To compare any book to a Oliver Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it . . . I finished it feeling thrillingly unsettled, and wishing there was more.' – James McConnachie,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and – more crucially – to treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a particular type of psychosomatic illness: medical disorders that are influenced as much by the idiosyncratic aspects of individual cultures as they are by human biology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by a poignant encounter with the sleeping refugee children of Sweden, Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan travels the world to visit other communities who have also been subject to outbreaks of so-called ‘mystery’ illnesses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan, to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua via an oil town in Texas, to the heart of the Maria Mountains in Colombia, O’Sullivan hears remarkable stories from a fascinating array of people, and attempts to unravel their complex meaning while asking the question: who gets to define what is and what isn’t an illness?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eReminiscent of the work of Oliver Sacks, Stephen Grosz and Henry Marsh,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sleeping Beauties\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a moving and unforgettable scientific investigation with a very human face.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SUZANNE O SULLIVAN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52214966845728,"sku":"hjg1787249146493","price":3.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3231\/3120\/files\/the-sleeping-beauties-and-other-stories-of-mystery-illness-paperback_1.jpg?v=1787249153","url":"https:\/\/www.elmwoodbasket.shop\/products\/the-sleeping-beauties-and-other-stories-of-mystery-illness-paperback","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}