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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
edited by David M. Dawson and Thomas D. Sabin, 218 pp, $65, ISBN 0-316-17748-2, Boston, Mass, Little Brown & Co Inc, 1993.
Gordon S. Walbroehl, MD, Reviewer
Department of Family Practice Wright State University School of Medicine Dayton, Ohio
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(11):1202.
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Mention chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and most physicians will surely react. While many may dismiss CFS as "yuppie flu" or a crook's disease, others will testify to its legitimacy and importance. The editors of this text have brought together a panel of experts to enlighten us about the mysteries of this controversial and confusing illness. I started off as a skeptic about this syndrome; I believe I am less so now.
The editors acknowledge the controversy surrounding this illness in the preface. The first chapter opens with the history and epidemiology of CFS and closes with the American and British research case definitions of the disease. I found this to be one of the most interesting chapters of the book. The authors present the material clearly and without bias.
The next 12 chapters are somewhat uneven owing to the varying styles of the "guest" authors (the majority of whom are
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