Under the medical gaze : facts and fictions of chronic pain / Susan Greenhalgh.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. Understanding Chronic Pain
- Preface
- Problematique
- Prologue: Finding Dr. Right
- Part Two. Doing Biomedicine
- 1. The Initial Consultation: The Making of a "Fibromyalgic"
- 2. Medicating the "Fibromyalgic"-Arthritic Body
- 3. Producing the Good Patient
- Part Three. Doing Gender
- 4. A Most Pleasant Patient
- 5. Silent Rebellion and Rage
- 6. A Depression Worse Than the Disease
- Part Four. 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
- Part Five. Rebellion and Self-Renewal
- 1. 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
- Part Six. Narrating Illness, Politicizing PainConclusion: Re-viewing the Medicine of Chronic Pain
- Epilogue: Speaking of Pain
- On Stories, Cultural Recuperations, and Political Interventions.