{"id":266,"date":"2025-03-09T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T11:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-osullivan-review-are-we-really-getting-sicker-health-mind-and-body-books-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T11:08:29","slug":"the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-osullivan-review-are-we-really-getting-sicker-health-mind-and-body-books-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-osullivan-review-are-we-really-getting-sicker-health-mind-and-body-books-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O\u2019Sullivan review \u2013 are we really getting sicker? | Health, mind and body books | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lyme disease, like any other medical condition, has a large subjective element and diagnosis is as much an art as a science.<\/p>\n<p>Physicians have been cognisant of this paradox since the time of Hippocrates \u2013 indeed, the history of medicine can be seen as an effort to put diagnosis on a sounder scientific footing by eliciting the role that microbes, environmental pollutants, genes and psycho-social stressors play in disease. But as medicine has become more sophisticated and we have developed more sensitive tests and treatments, so more and more people have acquired diagnostic labels.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/mar\/09\/the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-o-sullivan-review-lyme-disease-adhd-autism\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/mar\/09\/the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-o-sullivan-review-lyme-disease-adhd-autism<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyme disease, like any other medical condition, has a large subjective element and diagnosis is as much an art as a science. Physicians have been cognisant of this paradox since the time of Hippocrates \u2013 indeed, the history of medicine can be seen as an effort to put diagnosis on a sounder scientific footing by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}