Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
List of Tables and Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
1 The Initial Consultation......Page 79
2 Medicating the “Fibromyalgic”–Arthritic Body......Page 99
3 Producing the Good Patient......Page 125
4 A Most Pleasant Patient......Page 153
5 Silent Rebellion and Rage......Page 175
6 A Depression Worse than the Disease......Page 188
7 Struggling to Make the Treatment Work......Page 205
8 “Accept It!” Alternative Medicines Offer Medicine for the Mind......Page 224
9 A Life Shrunk, a Mind Gone Nearly Mad......Page 238
10 A Second Opinion: The Unmaking of a “Fibromyalgic”......Page 257
11 The Final Meeting: A Tale of Decline and a Denial......Page 269
12 Out from under the Medical Gaze......Page 287
Conclusion......Page 303
Epilogue......Page 335
Notes......Page 337
References......Page 357
Index......Page 377