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: 9780756783488

ISBN-10: 0756783488

ISBN-13: 9780756783488

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Susan Greenhalgh

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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 371
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



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