By Kristin Barker

ISBN-10: 1592131603

ISBN-13: 9781592131600

ISBN-10: 1592131611

ISBN-13: 9781592131617

greater than six million Americans—most of them women—have been clinically determined with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a affliction that produces musculo-skeletal discomfort and fatigue. within the absence of seen facts, a well-understood reason, or potent therapy, many have puzzled no matter if FMS is a "real" disorder. Amidst the talk, hundreds of thousands of girls reside with their very actual symptoms.Rather than taking aspects within the heated debate, Kristin Barker explains how FMS represents a clumsy union among the practices of recent medication and the complexity of women's soreness. utilizing interviews with victims, Barker makes a speciality of how the assumption of FMS offers which means and order to ladies beset by means of troubling indicators, self-doubt, and public skepticism.This booklet bargains a clean examine a debatable prognosis; Barker avoids overly simplistic factors and empathizes with victims with no wasting sight of the social building of disorder and its relation to trendy clinical practice.

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