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Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine - Couverture souple

Dumes, Abigail A.

 
9781478006664: Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine
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ISBN 10 : 1478006668 ISBN 13 : 9781478006664
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2020

Synopsis

While many doctors claim that Lyme disease-a tick-borne bacterial infection-is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic treatment in the form of chronic Lyme disease. In Divided Bodies, Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy that sheds light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States. Drawing on fieldwork among Lyme patients, doctors, and scientists, Dumes formulates the notion of divided bodies: she argues that contested illnesses are disorders characterized by the division of bodies of thought in which the patient's experience is often in conflict with how it is perceived. Dumes also shows how evidence-based medicine has paradoxically amplified differences in practice and opinion by providing a platform of legitimacy on which interested parties-patients, doctors, scientists, politicians-can make claims to medical truth.

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À propos de l'auteur

Abigail A. Dumes is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1478006668
ISBN 13 
9781478006664
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
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Personne responsable
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