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Edited by Stanley R. Pillemer. 184 pp. Binghamton, N.Y., Haworth Press, 1995. $29.95. ISBN 1-56024-714-2.

Thirty years have elapsed since C.K. Meador proposed the concept of nondisease in the Journal ("The Art and Science of Nondisease." 1965;272:92-5). He suggested that when a specific disease is suspected but not found, the patient has a particular nondisease. Fibromyalgia has enjoyed the reputation of being a nondisease for many years. Known as fibrositis until Yunus correctly renamed it in 1980 because the process was noninflammatory, fibromyalgia has evolved from being a closet rheumatologic syndrome that everybody studied for five minutes in medical school to one of the "fad" diseases of the 1990s that embraces components of chronic fatigue . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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