From a lived body to a medicalized body: Diagnostic transformation and chronic fatigue syndrome

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 299-317

  Sachs, Lisbeth ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic fatigue syndrome; Chronicity; Diagnostic transformation; Identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DISABLED PERSON; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISABLED PERSONS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PAIN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 0035754827     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2001.9966180     Document Type: Article

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