| <<Previous Attachments: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as: 1) Having severe chronic fatigue of six months or longer duration with other known medical conditions excluded by clinical diagnosis; and 2) concurrently having four or more of the following symptoms: substantial impairment in short-term memory or concentration; tender lymph nodes; muscle pain; multi-joint pain without swelling or redness; headaches of a new type, pattern, or severity; unrefreshing sleep; and post-exertional malaise lasting more than 24 hours. The symptoms must have persisted or recurred during six or more consecutive months of illness and must not have predated the fatigue. (Fukuda 1994) References: Banks, Jonathon, & Prior, Lindsay (2001). Doing things with illness: The micro politics of the CFS clinic. Social Science and Medicine, 52, 11-23. Deale, Alicia, & Wessely, Simon (2001). Patients perceptions of medical care in chronic fatigue syndrome. Social Science and Medicine, 52, 1859-1864. Fukuda, K., Straus, S., Hickie, I., et al. (1994). The chronic fatigue syndrome: a comprehensive approach to its definition and study. Annals of Internal Medicine, 121, 953-959. Hutchinson, Allen, et al. (2002) Report of the CFS/ME Working Group: London, England. Payer, Lynn (1996). Medicine and Culture. Henry Holt and Company, LLC.: New York, NY. Program Fact Sheet, National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (2002). Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Atlanta, GA. Summary Report, Meeting of CFS Patient Advocacy Group Representatives (1999). Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Atlanta, GA. Whorf, Benjamin L. (1956). Language, Thought, and Reality. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Beginning |
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