NO ONE WANTS TO BE THE CANDY MAN: Ambivalent Medicalization and Clinician Subjectivity in Pain Management.
Pain, despite being an elemental bodily experience and the most common reason for seeking medical care, occupies a place of profound ontological and moral uncertainty in U.S. biomedicine. Taking seriously the highly charged emotions-frustration, anger, even disgust-frequently expressed by clinicians...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Anthropology (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 689 - 713 |
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