Under the medical gaze : facts and fictions of chronic pain /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| ISBN: | 9780520925090 0520925092 0585389225 9780585389226 1597349712 9781597349710 9786613811653 6613811653 1282233912 9781282233911 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 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.