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1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-364) and index. |
| Contents |
Understanding Chronic Pain -- Problematique -- Prologue: Finding Dr. Right -- Doing Biomedicine -- 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" -- 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greenhalgh, Susan -- Health.
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Greenhalgh, Susan. |
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Health. |
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Greenhalgh, Susan.
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Chronic pain -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Chronic pain -- Patients. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Chronic pain. |
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Arthritis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Arthritis -- Patients. |
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Fibromyalgia -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Fibromyalgia -- Patients. |
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Fibromyalgia. |
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Physician and patient.
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Physician and patient. |
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Diagnostic errors.
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Diagnostic errors. |
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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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Personal Narrative.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greenhalgh, Susan. Under the medical gaze. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520223977 (DLC) 00048890 (OCoLC)45162080 |
| ISBN |
9780520925090 (electronic book) |
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0520925092 (electronic book) |
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0585389225 (electronic book) |
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9780585389226 (electronic book) |
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1597349712 |
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9781597349710 |
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0520223977 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520223974 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520223985 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520223981 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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