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| Genre/Form: | Biography Autobiography |
|---|---|
| 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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