Waiting For Superman - One Family's Struggle to Survive - and Cure - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The gripping story of an acclaimed geneticist who has put his career aside to find a cure for chronic fatigue syndrome, the disease killing his son

About the author

Tracie White is an award-winning journalist and a science writer for Stanford University. Her work has also appeared in Salon, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more. She graduated from U.C Berkley and has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Aptos, California.

Summary

For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, eat or speak. His diagnosis? The mysterious disease myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) which affects 20 million people around the world who largely suffer in silence because the condition is little known and much misunderstood.

Waiting for Superman follows Whitney's father, groundbreaking geneticist Ron Davis, as he uncovers new possibilities for treatments and potentially a cure. At its heart, this book is about more than just cutting-edge research or a race to find an answer - it's about the lengths to which a parent will go to save their child's life.

Product details

• Authors: Tracie White
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2023
• EAN: 9781911630623
• ISBN: 978-1-911630-62-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 214 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; HEALTH & FITNESS / Physical Impairments, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Diseases & disorders, Diseases and disorders, Chronic diseases and conditions