Under the Medical Gaze Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain

Name: Under the Medical Gaze Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
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ISBN: 9780520223981

ISBN-10: 0520223985

ISBN-13: 9780520223981

Edition: 2001

Authors: Susan Greenhalgh

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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 plays, and shrewd detective work. Setting a new standard for the practice of autoethnography, Susan Greenhalgh presents a case study of her intense encounter with an enthusiastic young specialist who, through creative interpretation of the diagnostic criteria for a newly emerging chronic disease, became convinced she had a painful, essentially untreatable, lifelong muscle condition called…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 383
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. She is the author of Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain , Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China , and Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China . She is coauthor of Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics .



List of Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments



Understanding Chronic Pain


Preface


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


Notes


References


Index