TY - BOOK AU - Lunden,Jennifer TI - American breakdown: our ailing nation, my body's revolt, and the nineteenth-century woman who brought me back to life SN - 9780062941374 PY - 2023///] CY - New York, NY PB - Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - Lunden, Jennifer KW - James, Alice, KW - Chronic fatigue syndrome KW - Patients KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Women authors, American KW - Women KW - Health and hygiene KW - History KW - Women's health services KW - Diagnosis KW - Discrimination in medical care KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-446) and index; Bankruptcy -- Still waters -- Elephant -- Territories -- Minefield -- Our domestic poisons -- Our domestic poisons, redux -- Spin -- Clockwork -- Load -- Gilt -- Asylum -- Bedlam -- Pulse -- Treasure house -- Rewiring -- Web N2 - "A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"-- ER -