Angela Kennedy

Angela Kennedy is the author of the book Authors of our own misfortune? The problems with psychogenic explanations for physical illnesses and was an advocate for the rights of the ME community from 2003-2015. She is a carer to her daughter who was given an ME diagnosis two years into her illness. She is a sociologist primarily researching in sociology of science, medicine, disability and health. Kennedy was active with the advocacy group The One Click Group from 2004-2006. She has written extensively on the PACE trial and its flaws, on psychogenic explanations for physical explanations for physical impairments, and on research methodology in the literature on ME/CFS and other conditions.