Amidst the rise of fake news and Internet hoaxes, bogus illness accounts are particularly troubling, given their potential to undermine the benefits of online peer-support communities, to erode trust in expert medical knowledge, and to… Read More »Not Your Usual Invisible Illness: Investigating Fake Illness Narratives
In this paper we problematize and challenge narrow clinical depictions of Tourette syndrome by denoting how dimensions of the condition are rendered invisible in biomedical and clinical sciences and practice. Tourette syndrome is associated with… Read More »The Production of Tourette Syndrome: Erasures, framings, and silences
By the 1870s and 80s, ‘new’ nervous disorders, such as hysteria and neurasthenia, and those following wartime injuries, such as selective paralysis, loosened the relationship between tissue damage, sensation, and signs of suffering. The unreliability… Read More »Valid Invalid?: exploring visibility and viability, from laboratory to clinic