Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media

Argues that modern syndromes such as alien abduction, chronic fatigue, satanic ritual abuse, and Gulf War syndrome are all manifestations of mass cultural hysteria, and shows how epidemics of hysteria are spread through self-help books, talk shows, the Internet, films, and literary criticism. For scholars and general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.