| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations |
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Understanding Chronic Pain -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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alternative medicine |
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american health care |
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biomedical |
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chronic disease |
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chronic pain |
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cultural studies |
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detective |
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diagnosis |
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disease |
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ethnography |
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feminism |
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feminist |
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fibromyalgia |
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health and wellness |
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health care system |
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health care |
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health issues |
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healthy living |
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medical issues |
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medical science |
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medical system |
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medicine |
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mental health |
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pain disorder |
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pain management |
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physical health |
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physical therapy |
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psychology |
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social studies |
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sociopolitical |
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therapy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-364) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Greenhalgh, Susan -- Health
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| SUBJECT |
Greenhalgh, Susan |
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Greenhalgh, Susan fast |
| Subject |
Chronic pain -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
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Arthritis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
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Fibromyalgia -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
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Physician and patient.
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Diagnostic errors.
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Pain.
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Arthritis.
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Chronic diseases.
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Fibromyalgia.
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Pain
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Arthritis
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Chronic Disease
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Diagnostic Errors
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Fibromyalgia
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Physician-Patient Relations
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pain Management.
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MEDICAL -- Pain Medicine.
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Pain
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Fibromyalgia
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Chronic diseases
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Arthritis
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Arthritis -- Patients
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Chronic pain -- Patients
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Diagnostic errors
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Fibromyalgia -- Patients
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Health
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Physician and patient
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Chronischer Schmerz
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Patient
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Fibromyalgie
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Rheumatoide Arthritis
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Arzt
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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Biographies
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520925090 |
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0520925092 |
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0585389225 |
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9780585389226 |
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1597349712 |
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9781597349710 |
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9786613811653 |
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6613811653 |
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1282233912 |
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9781282233911 |
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