Chronic Pain and Working Women of Berkshire County (Paperback)

Pain is the most frequent cause of impairment and disability in the United States. Chronic pain can be described as a complex interaction of biological and socio-cultural factors. The general purpose of this work is to describe and analyze the hegemonic nature of physical therapy practice, in the United States, as an agent of Western/Biomedicine in the treatment of working women with chronic pain using a critical medical anthropological (CMA) lens. It will be demonstrated that for physical therapy the body, especially the female body, is to be corrected, regulated, placed under surveillance, disciplined, and is a commodity to be controlled, all the while transforming women with chronic pain into consumers of the multibillion dollar chronic pain industry. The examination and analysis of chronic pain through a CMA lens provides a corrective to the biologically reductionist diagnostic and treatment approach that is characteristic of Western/Biomedicine.

General

Imprint:	VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	June 2008
First published:	June 2008
Authors:	James Brennan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-3-639-00822-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Rehabilitation
LSN:	3-639-00822-7
Barcode:	9783639008227

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