{"product_id":"the-fibromyalgia-story-medical-authority-and-womens-worlds-of-pain-9781592131600","title":"The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than six million Americans - most of them women - have been diagnosed with the controversial medical disorder fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). Because of the absence of definitive physiological markers, a well-understood cause, or effective treatment, FMS is controversial. Many have questioned if FMS is a \"real\" illness or if women sufferers are modern-day hysterics. Amidst the controversy, millions of women live with their very real symptoms. Rather than taking sides in the heated FMS debate, Kristin Barker explains how FMS represents an awkward union between the practices of modern medicine and the complexity of women's pain. Using interviews with sufferers, Barker focuses on how the idea of FMS gives meaning and order to women beset by troubling symptoms, self-doubt, and public skepticism. This book offers a fresh look at a controversial diagnosis, avoids overly simplistic explanations, and empathizes with sufferers without losing sight of medicine's power over our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This clearly written book.[is] exhaustively researched.\" The American Journal of Sociology \"important...[it] offers much for scholars of many disciplines who seek to understand the experience of pain, and to cast mind-body duality in a modern light...[a] well-written exposition on the preconceptions of highly disparate academic traditions.\" The New England Journal of Medicine \"There is much to admire about this book manuscript - I commend the author for tackling a difficult subject and treating it so deftly and insightfully.\" Elizabeth Armstrong  \"The sociologist, Kristin K. Barker, scrutinizes the medical making of a disease...This is a really good book about why biomedicine is not good enough when judged according to its most noble mandate: to alleviate human suffering.\" - The Permanente Journal, Fall 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; Chapter 1. The Diagnostic Making of FMS; Chapter 2. The Woman Problem and the Feminization of FMS; Chapter 3. Similar-But-Different: The FMS Illness Experience; Chapter 4. The Symptomatic Self and the Life World; Chapter 5. In Search of Meaning; Chapter 6. Diagnostic Transformations; Chapter 7. Self-Help and the Making of an FMS Illness Identity; Chapter 8. Ties That Bind and the Problem That Had No Name; Conclusion ; Appendix A. The FMS Biomedical Literature; Appendix B. The Interviews","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041551548759,"sku":"9781592131600","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781592131600.jpg?v=1750950751","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fibromyalgia-story-medical-authority-and-womens-worlds-of-pain-9781592131600","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}