Under the Medical Gaze : Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain /

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This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Greenhalgh, Susan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Greenhalgh, Susan.
Greenhalgh, Susan
Greenhalgh, Susan > Health.
Arzt
Rheumatoide Arthritis
Fibromyalgie
Patient
Chronischer Schmerz
Physician and patient.
Health.
Fibromyalgia > Patients.
Diagnostic errors.
Chronic pain > Patients.
Arthritis > Patients.
MEDICAL > Pain Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Pain Management.
Fibromyalgie.
Maladies chroniques.
Arthrite.
Douleur.
Erreurs de diagnostic.
Relations medecin-patient.
Fibromyalgie > Patients > États-Unis > Biographies.
Douleur chronique > Patients > États-Unis > Biographies.
Physician-Patient Relations
Fibromyalgia
Diagnostic Errors
Chronic Disease
Arthritis
Pain
Fibromyalgia.
Chronic diseases.
Arthritis.
Pain.
Fibromyalgia > Patients > United States > Biography.
Arthritis > Patients > United States > Biography.
Chronic pain > Patients > United States > Biography.
United States.
Recits personnels.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Understanding Chronic Pain
  • Problematique
  • Prologue: Finding Dr. Right
  • Doing Biomedicine
  • The Initial Consultation: The Making of a "Fibromyalgic"
  • Medicating the "Fibromyalgic"-Arthritic Body
  • Producing the Good Patient
  • Doing Gender
  • A Most Pleasant Patient
  • Silent Rebellion and Rage
  • A Depression Worse than the Disease
  • A Losing Battle to Get Better
  • Struggling to Make the Treatment Work
  • "Accept It!" Alternative Medicines Offer Medicine for the Mind
  • A Life Shrunk, a Mind Gone Nearly Mad
  • Rebellion and Self-Renewal
  • A Second Opinion: The Unmaking of a "Fibromyalgic"
  • The Final Meeting: A Tale of Decline and a Denial
  • Out from under the Medical Gaze
  • Narrating Illness, Politicizing Pain
  • Conclusion: Re-viewing the Medicine of Chronic Pain
  • Epilogue: Speaking of Pain--On Stories, Cultural Recuperations, and Political Interventions.

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