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From a lived body to a medicalized body : Diagnostic transformation and chronic fatigue syndrome
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- Sachs, Lisbeth, 1938- (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Filosofiska fakulteten,Institutionen för tema
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- 2001
- 2001
- English.
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In: Medical Anthropology. - 0145-9740 .- 1545-5882. ; 19:4, s. 299-317
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- This paper addresses the diagnostic dilemma posed by chronic illness that offers no demonstrable evidence of serious physical disorders or pathology. Is a diagnosis such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) disabling because it encourages people to identify with it? Does it become a self-fulfilling prophecy? In providing people with a name, and thus allowing them to confirm the legitimacy of their suffering, a diagnosis of CFS may help them to relate to their world and, hence, facilitate their recovery. One of the most relevant questions pertaining to a diagnosis of CFS concerns how people deal with suffering when it does not come with a biomedically established pathology. I draw upon material provided by 21 men and women diagnosed with CFS. My analysis concerns the ambivalence involved in the diagnostic process and its implications for the relationship between self-identity and chronicity.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS
- TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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