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CFS – an illness without disease?
CFS – an illness without disease? In a recent paper psychologist Prof Michael Sharpe and sociologist Monica Greco discuss CFS as an ‘illness without disease’ in comparison to cancer, a known disease, and argued that, while illness-focused treatments like CBT … Continue reading
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Finnish patients & health workers asked: What is a disease?
Research abstract: Objective: To assess the perception of diseases and the willingness to use public-tax revenue for their treatment among relevant stakeholders. Design: A population-based, cross-sectional mailed survey. Setting: Finland. Participants: 3000 laypeople, 1500 doctors, 1500 nurses (randomly identified from … Continue reading
