Historical research - current focus on psychiatry, (construct) agnotology, medical and psychiatric misogyny & disableism. Late Stage Lyme disease, POTS.
Dec 19, 2024 • 31 tweets • 14 min read
I don’t know what the UK ME Association is doing, but I can’t rhyme their recent statement with the documentation.
Am I missing something?
A thread. 🧵:
meassociation.org.uk/2024/12/mea-st…
On 19 November 2013, the association members voted on, and approved, renewed Articles of Association. (AoANov13) Sent to Companies House the same month.
Regarding use of property, these were articles 4 & 28 at the time. (pics)
I see several tweets that use an article based on Stephen Staus’ words to say that #MECFS was described in the 1650s.
Please don’t repeat this; Based on the sources provided this is historically inaccurate.
A thread 🧵:
This is the article in question. It appeared in April 1991, shortly after Straus, who propagated that ME/CFS was a psychiatric affliction of women, had gotten an article published in January- February 1992 titled “History of chronic fatigue syndrome”.
1/ 🧵 A hallmark of the illness ME, also known as ME/CFS is a bad response to and tolerance of effort and exercise.
I have collected a bunch of papers, threads and articles about this. Unfortunately I do not have the time or energy to write a coherent thread abt it. #MECFS
2/However, it might be handy for reference, and to show how much knowledge there already is on this phenomenon.
So in the next days I will try to put my (non-exhaustive and non-organized) collection on twitter in portions for the benefit of others.
