Abigail A Dumes

Divided Bodies

Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy to shed light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781478005988
• ISBN-10: 147800598X
• Artikelnr.: 58702062

Autorenporträt

Abigail A. Dumes is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Lyme Disease Outside In  1
1. Mapping the Lyme Disease Controversy  27
2. Preventing Lyme  65
3. Living Lyme  99
4. Diagnosing and Treating Lyme  158
5. Lyme Disease, Evidence-Based Medicine, and the Biopolitics of
Truthmaking  187
Conclusion: Through Lyme's Looking Glass  222
Notes  235
Glossary  271
References  273
Index  327