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Divided Bodies
- Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine
Engelsk Paperback
Divided Bodies
- Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
360
ISBN-13:
9781478006664
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478006668
Udg. Dato:
25 sep 2020
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
25 sep 2020
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