Diane O'Leary

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Dr Diane O'Leary is a researcher in bioethics at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, United States.[1]


“ Evidence-based medicine is driven by the effort to minimize medical risk. In the area of ME/CFS, however, it has long been routine for psychosomatic research to proceed as if medical risk can be ignored, as if it simply is not possible that patients with this poorly understood condition are suffering from a biomedical disease.

That oversight can no longer be maintained in credible debate and research.

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—Diane O'Leary,  Journal of Medical Ethics blog[2] 2019


Notable studies[edit | edit source]

  • 2019, Bodily Distress Syndrome: Concerns About Scientific Credibility in Research and Implementation[3] (Full text)
  • 2018, Why Bioethics Should Be Concerned With Medically Unexplained Symptoms[4] (Full text)

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Diane O'Leary » The Kennedy Institute of Ethics". The Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 O'Leary, Diane (March 5, 2019). "It's Time to Pay Attention to "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"". Journal of Medical Ethics. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ O'Leary, D. (June 30, 2018). "Bodily distress syndrome: Concerns about scientific credibility in research and implementation". Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. 18 (2): 67–77t. doi:10.4024/07LE18A.jbpc.18.02.
  4. ↑ O'Leary, Diane (May 2018). "Why Bioethics Should Be Concerned With Medically Unexplained Symptoms" (PDF). The American journal of bioethics: AJOB. 18 (5): 6–15. doi:10.1080/15265161.2018.1445312. ISSN 1536-0075. PMID 29697324.

somatic symptom disorder A psychiatric term to describe an alleged condition whereby a person's thoughts somehow cause physical symptoms. The actual existence of such a condition is highly controversial, due to a lack of scientific evidence. It is related to other psychiatric terms, such as "psychosomatic", "neurasthenia", and "hysteria". Older terms include "somatization", "somatoform disorder", and "conversion disorder". Such terms refer to a scientifically-unsupported theory that claims that a wide range of physical symptoms can be created by the human mind, a theory which has been criticized as "mind over matter" parapsychology, a pseudoscience.

See somatic symptom disorder.

medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) - Technically, this term means that no cause or explanation for the patient's symptoms has yet been found. However, patients diagnosed with "MUPS" are generally lumped into a psychosomatic, or psychologically-caused category by those in the medical profession, without any scientific basis for doing so.

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