Pt. 1. Understanding Chronic Pain -- Problematique -- Prologue: Finding Dr. Right -- Pt. 2. Doing Biomedicine -- 1. The Initial Consultation: The Making of a "Fibromyalgic" -- 2. Medicating the "Fibromyalgic"-Arthritic Body -- 3. Producing the Good Patient -- Pt. 3. Doing Gender -- 4. A Most Pleasant Patient -- 5. Silent Rebellion and Rage -- 6. A Depression Worse than the Disease -- Pt. 4. A Losing Battle to Get Better -- 7. Struggling to Make the Treatment Work -- 8. "Accept It!" Alternative Medicines Offer Medicine for the Mind -- 9. A Life Shrunk, a Mind Gone Nearly Mad -- Pt. 5. Rebellion and Self-Renewal -- 10. A Second Opinion: The Unmaking of a "Fibromyalgic" -- 11. The Final Meeting: A Tale of Decline and a Denial -- 12. Out from under the Medical Gaze -- Pt. 6. Narrating Illness, Politicizing Pain -- Conclusion: Re-viewing the Medicine of Chronic Pain -- Epilogue: Speaking of Pain - On Stories, Cultural Recuperations, and Political Interventions
