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Suffering without Remedy: The Medically Unexplained Symptoms of Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Long COVID
Autor:
Chiara Moretti, Kristin Kay Barker
Publikováno v:
Social Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 9, p 450 (2024)
The term “Medically Unexplained Symptoms” (MUS) describes chronic symptoms for which medical investigations fail to reveal a specific pathology or biomarker. Even as MUS are among the most prevalent chronic health problems in the global north, pa
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https://doaj.org/article/af6aa5feeecd498886f470e260aa918f
Publikováno v:
Sociology of healthillnessREFERENCES.
We bring together insights from the sociology of diagnosis and the sociology of ignorance to examine the early diagnostic unfolding of 'Long COVID' (LC). Originally described by patient activists, researchers set out to ponder its unwieldy clinical b
Publikováno v:
Sociological Forum. 36:601-623
Autor:
Kristin Kay Barker
Publikováno v:
Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 60:509-524
Sociologists have documented how the pharmaceutical industry has corrupted pharmacovigilance (PV), defined as the practices devoted to detecting and preventing adverse drug reactions (ADRs). In this article, I juxtapose the official postmarketing sys
Publikováno v:
BioSocieties. 14:438-462
With the increasing use of imaging technologies like fMRI in prison sentencing and penal policy, sociologists must comprehend the consequences of these trends and the scientific assumptions upon which they stand. This article uses insights from the s
Autor:
Sanjeev Arora, Andrea Zurawski, Summers Kalishman, Patricia S. O'Sullivan, Martin Jurado, Kristin Kay Barker, Erin Madden, Miriam Komaromy
Publikováno v:
Patient Education and Counseling. 101:524-531
Objective Elicit patients’ perceptions of factors that facilitate their engagement in care Methods In-depth interviews with 20 adult Medicaid patients who had complex health problems, frequent hospitalizations/emergency department use, and who were
Publikováno v:
Sociology of Health & Illness. 37:1337-1351
Hispanic Americans use prescription medications at markedly lower rates than do non-Hispanic whites. At the same time, Hispanics are the largest racial-ethnic minority in the USA. In a recent effort to reach this underdeveloped market, the pharmaceut
Autor:
Tasha R. Galardi, Kristin Kay Barker
Publikováno v:
Social Problems. 62:120-140
A central mechanism by which medicalization occurs is through domain expansion, wherein an existing diagnostic definition widens to include cases beyond its original scope. This has been especially commonplace with respect to mental illness diagnoses
Autor:
Kristin Kay Barker, Tasha R. Galardi
Publikováno v:
Social Science & Medicine. 72:1351-1358
This paper examines the reactions of women with breast cancer to the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for mammography screening. Specifically, it analyzes electronic postings about the Task Force's recommendations from five br
Autor:
Kristin Kay Barker, Peter Conrad
Publikováno v:
Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 51:S67-S79
The social construction of illness is a major research perspective in medical sociology. This article traces the roots of this perspective and presents three overarching constructionist findings. First, some illnesses are particularly embedded with c