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Under the medical gaze : facts and fictions of chronic pain / / Susan Greenhalgh



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Autore: Greenhalgh Susan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Under the medical gaze : facts and fictions of chronic pain / / Susan Greenhalgh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2001
©2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 616/.0472/092
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Soggetto topico: Chronic pain - Patients - United States
Arthritis - Patients - United States
Fibromyalgia - Patients - United States
Physician and patient
Diagnostic errors
Soggetto non controllato: alternative medicine
american health care
biomedical
chronic disease
chronic pain
cultural studies
detective
diagnosis
disease
ethnography
feminism
feminist
fibromyalgia
health and wellness
health care system
health care
health issues
healthy living
medical issues
medical science
medical system
medicine
mental health
pain disorder
pain management
physical health
physical therapy
psychology
social studies
sociopolitical
therapy
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-364) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Understanding Chronic Pain -- Part Two: Doing Biomedicine -- Part Three: Doing Gender -- Part Four: A Losing Battle to Get Better -- Part Five: Rebellion and Self-Renewal -- Part Six: Narrating Illness, Politicizing Pain -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Under the medical gaze  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-92509-2
9786613811653
1-59734-971-2
1-282-23391-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782905403321
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