Susan Greenhalgh's Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain PDF

By Susan Greenhalgh

This compelling account of the author's adventure with a protracted soreness ailment and next interplay with the yankee healthiness care process is going to the guts of the workings of energy and tradition within the biomedical area. it's a clinical whodunit choked with mysterious misdiagnosis, refined strength performs, and smart detective paintings. surroundings a brand new normal for the perform of autoethnography, Susan Greenhalgh offers a case research of her severe come upon with an enthusiastic younger expert who, via inventive interpretation of the diagnostic standards for a newly rising continual ailment, turned confident she had a painful, basically untreatable, lifelong muscle situation referred to as fibromyalgia. Greenhalgh lines the ruinous results of this prognosis on her internal global, physically future health, and total healthiness. Under the scientific Gaze serves as a robust representation of medicine's energy to create and inflict discomfort, to outline ailment and the self, and to control relationships and lives.

Greenhalgh eventually learns that she have been misdiagnosed and starts off the lengthy means of undoing the actual and emotional harm caused through her approximately catastrophic remedy. In contemplating how issues might cross so awry, she embarks on a cogent and strong research of the sociopolitical assets of soreness via feminist, cultural, and political understandings of the character of clinical discourse and perform within the usa. She develops clean arguments in regards to the strength of drugs to medicalize our selves and lives, the seductions of scientific technology, and the deep, psychologically rooted problems girls sufferers face in interactions with male physicians. in any case, Under the scientific Gaze goes past the critique of biomedicine to probe the social roots of continual discomfort and healing possible choices that depend upon neither the body-cure of traditional medication nor the mind-cure of a few replacement medications, yet relatively a broader set of concepts that tackle the sociopolitical assets of pain.

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