Author(s): Meghan O'Rourke

Health

Drawing on her own medical experience and fifteen years of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, Meghan O'Rourke's incisive new work speaks to an urgent subject: the epidemic scale of autoimmune disease - even greater with the advent of 'Long Covid' - and where we go from here. Blending lyricism, candour, and empathy, O'Rourke reveals complexities about the struggle with chronic illness and autoimmune conditions, and offers new reasons for hope, as well as a new framework for thinking about infectious disease and autoimmune response going forward.