Seeking the Cure Unknown: A Report from the Lymelands

Pamela Weintraub

Jul 2013 · Sold by St. Martin's Griffin

About this ebook

The brand-new final chapter from the revised edition of CURE UNKNOWN, the definitive, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease

Since its original publication in 2008, CURE UNKNOWN has become known as a nuanced, groundbreaking picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease, and the only book of its kind. Award-winning journalist Pamela Weintraub reveals her personal struggle with Lyme after she and her family became seriously ill with the disease, and sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today.

In recent years, there have been many crucial updates (political, medical and scientific) to the Lyme story; the intense controversy has continued, new information has come out, and paradigm-shifting decisions made at the highest levels of government. In this brand-new final chapter of CURE UNKNOWN, originally published in the May 2013 revised edition, Pamela offers her unique, riveting take on the disease as it stands today, further exposing the ticking clock of a raging epidemic and offering sufferers new hope.

Ratings and reviews

"Cure Unknown" + "SEEKING the Cure Unknown (ie this book) = "Cure Unknown (REVISED EDITION)" Since at least one reader seemed to be unaware, please note, as stated in the book blurb, this is the new chapter that has been included in the Revised Edition of Cure Unknown. "Seeking the Cure Unknown" (the book this review of mine is about) is for people who have read the old edition of Cure Unknown and want the read the new chapter without buying the entire Revised Edition. Who thought that Pam Weintraub's true life tale of the trainwreck of politics, venality, science, greed, power, medicine and a devastating epidemic of severe infectious disease right under our nose could get any more captivating? But with this illuminating and spellbinding update to the powerful thriller Cure Unknown, our jaw drops just a little farther. If this doesn't scare and outrage you, better check your pulse.

About the author

Pamela Weintraub is an author and journalist who specializes in health, biomedicine, and psychology. She is currently a consulting editor at Psychology Today and executive editor at MAMM magazine, and has served as editor in chief of OMNI and staff writer at Discover, Weintraub has written hundreds of articles for many national publications, including Redbook, Ms., McCall's, Audubon, and Health, to name just a few. She is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic. She lives in Connecticut. With Keith Harary, Weintraub has cowritten several books for the In 30 Days series, including Memory Enhancement in 30 Days, Lucid Dreams in 30 Days, and Right Brain Learning in 30 Days.