The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B08TRQM5T9 | 2021 | 10 hours and 12 minutes |MP3|M4B | 282 MB
In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many suspected culture-bound psychosomatic syndromes - specific sets of symptoms that exist in a particular culture or environment - that affect people throughout the world.