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| Genre/Form: | Biography Personal Narratives |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Greenhalgh, Susan. Under the medical gaze. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606542573 Online version: Greenhalgh, Susan. Under the medical gaze. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001 (OCoLC)632289250 |
| Named Person: | Susan Greenhalgh; Susan Greenhalgh |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Greenhalgh |
| ISBN: | 0520223977 9780520223974 0520223985 9780520223981 |
| OCLC Number: | 45162080 |
| Description: | xii, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Susan Greenhalgh. |
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"A very useful and very well written book....It states the issues in the culture of the biomedicine field effectively and makes them relevant." - Arthur Kleinman, author of Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine "Far above a simple telling of an illness, Greenhalgh takes the experience as a way to view gendered relations in medical care, the seduction of science for the physician and the patient, and the creation of facts and selves in the treatment of pain. She sets a new standard for the practice of autoethnography." - Virginia Olesen, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. "This is an extraordinary book - riveting story, concise scholarship, experimental ethnography - and it is beautifully told. Greenhalgh makes a cogent and powerful analysis of the sociopolitical sources of pain through feminist, cultural, and political understandings of the nature of medical science and medical practice in the United States." - Sharon Kaufman, author of The Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture" Read more...
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- Greenhalgh, Susan -- Health.
- Chronic pain -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
- Arthritis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
- Fibromyalgia -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
- Physician and patient.
- Diagnostic errors.
- Chronischer Schmerz.
- Arzt.
- Patient.
- Fibromyalgie.
- Rheumatoide Arthritis.
- Greenhalgh, Susan.
- Pain -- Personal Narratives.
- Arthritis -- Personal Narratives.
- Chronic Disease -- Personal Narratives.
- Diagnostic Errors -- Personal Narratives.
- Fibromyalgia -- Personal Narratives.
- Physician-Patient Relations -- Personal Narratives.
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