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- Author: James Brennan
- Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 224
- ISBN-10: 3639008227
- ISBN-13: 9783639008227
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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 sur-veillance, 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 bio-logically reductionist diagnostic and treatment approach that is cha-racteristic of Western/Biomedicine.
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- Author: James Brennan
- Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 224
- ISBN-10: 3639008227
- ISBN-13: 9783639008227
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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 sur-veillance, 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 bio-logically reductionist diagnostic and treatment approach that is cha-racteristic of Western/Biomedicine.
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