LEADER 04644nam 22007574a 450 001 9910450508203321 005 20210603233413.0 010 $a0-520-92509-2 010 $a9786613811653 010 $a1-59734-971-2 010 $a1-282-23391-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520925090 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008172 035 $a(EBL)224568 035 $a(OCoLC)475931400 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000264065 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11212142 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000264065 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10283647 035 $a(PQKB)11318043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224568 035 $a(OCoLC)49570008 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31047 035 $a(DE-B1597)520456 035 $a(OCoLC)1097095776 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520925090 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224568 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10053517 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL381165 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008172 100 $a20000929d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnder the medical gaze$b[electronic resource] $efacts and fictions of chronic pain /$fSusan Greenhalgh 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22397-7 311 0 $a0-520-22398-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-364) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tTables and Figures --$tAcknowledgments --$tPart One: Understanding Chronic Pain --$tPart Two: Doing Biomedicine --$tPart Three: Doing Gender --$tPart Four: A Losing Battle to Get Better --$tPart Five: Rebellion and Self-Renewal --$tPart Six: Narrating Illness, Politicizing Pain --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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 fibromyalgia. Greenhalgh traces the ruinous effects of this diagnosis on her inner world, bodily health, and overall well-being. Under the Medical Gaze serves as a powerful illustration of medicine's power to create and inflict suffering, to define disease and the self, and to manage relationships and lives. Greenhalgh ultimately learns that she had been misdiagnosed and begins the long process of undoing the physical and emotional damage brought about by her nearly catastrophic treatment. In considering how things could go so awry, she embarks on a cogent and powerful analysis of the sociopolitical sources of pain through feminist, cultural, and political understandings of the nature of medical discourse and practice in the United States. She develops fresh arguments about the power of medicine to medicalize our selves and lives, the seductions of medical science, and the deep, psychologically rooted difficulties women patients face in interactions with male physicians. In the end, Under the Medical Gaze goes beyond the critique of biomedicine to probe the social roots of chronic pain and therapeutic alternatives that rely on neither the body-cure of conventional medicine nor the mind-cure of some alternative medicines, but rather a broader set of strategies that address the sociopolitical sources of pain. 606 $aChronic pain$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aArthritis$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aFibromyalgia$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPhysician and patient 606 $aDiagnostic errors 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChronic pain$xPatients 615 0$aArthritis$xPatients 615 0$aFibromyalgia$xPatients 615 0$aPhysician and patient. 615 0$aDiagnostic errors. 676 $a616/.0472/092 676 $aB 700 $aGreenhalgh$b Susan$0951650 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450508203321 996 $aUnder the medical gaze$92472698 997 $aUNINA