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Lost Voices - Women, Chronic Pain, and Abuse (Paperback)
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Lost Voices - Women, Chronic Pain, and Abuse (Paperback)
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In this illuminating book, Dr. Nellie Radomsky explores the
complexity of chronic pain in women and evidence for its
association with abuse--an issue largely unrecognized by medical
practitioners. Modern medical training emphasizes diagnosis and
cure, but chronic pain problems often have no identifiable organic
cause, and the women who suffer are often not listened to in the
doctor's office. Lost Voices: Women, Chronic Pain, and Abuse
addresses how women, by gaining knowledge of the ways the medical
culture--and the larger culture--have silenced them, may move into
a healing process and learn to speak out. The author encourages
women in pain to give voice to their buried experiences and shows
them that speaking out about their experiences with abuse and
chronic pain can be the first step on the road to healing. The
author explores the lost voices of women in pain through stories
based on her personal encounters with patients in her practice.
These women and their case histories help illustrate the
interactions of chronic pain and abuse and the complexity of the
doctor-patient relationship. Among the many areas Dr. Radomsky
examines are: how the medical culture has silenced women chronic
pain in women with a history of abuse the relationship of women's
healing processes and the sense of finding and expressing "lost
voices" the doctor-patient relationship and obstacles to healing
the limitation of medical models with respect to understanding
complex chronic pain issues how acute and chronic pain differ and
how physicians and patients alike struggle with this
understandingScientific but very readable, Lost Voices assists
readers in the search for answers to complex pain problems. It is a
hope-full resource for women struggling with chronic pain and
personal abuse issues and an enlightening guide for physicians,
therapists, and others working with these women. Professionals
working in the area of chronic pain, readers involved in feminist
issues, and academic physicians interested in medicine as culture
will find Lost Voices a revealing book.
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