Suffering, hope and diagnosis
On the Negotiation of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4218329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars-Christer Hydén (0000-0002-3033-9879, Stockholm University), Lisbeth Sachs (Karolinska Institutet) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-193 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/136345939800200204 |
| OpenAlex | W1487733928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 29 |
The medical interview has a central place in the transformation of suffering into disease. The focus in this article is on patients with suspected chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Central to the diagnosis of CFS is the absence of a clear medical pathology causing symptoms. To patients it is of central importance to present themselves in the medical interview in a way that makes a diagnosis of CFS possible, which provides both hope for a cure and a social legitimization of their suffering. To doctors it is important that they maintain their position as a medical authority and gatekeeper. This means that in a medical examination the doctor and the patient together must explore the patient's suffering to define symptoms enabling a diagnosis of CFS. The central issue in this article is how doctors and patients in medical interviews negotiate symptoms and diagnostic criteria in search of a legitimate diagnosis and illness, and how this constitutes the central concern in the patient's and doctor's collaborative diagnosis work in the medical encounter
Chronic fatigue syndrome · Disease · Illness behavior · Medical illness · Medical record · Negotiation · Pathology · Psychiatry · Sociology · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neurology and Historical Studies · Surgery
Geographies Of Tolerance
Enigmatic Illness
The missing voice of the critically ill
Bodies in lockdown
Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue
Disease mongering, overdiagnosis, and media practices
The social construction of contested illness legitimacy
Haunting and the ghostly matters of undefined illness
What is psychiatry? Co-producing complexity in mental health
Beyond experiential knowledge
Patient Power and Control
Self within a climate of contention
Patient School as a Way of Creating Meaning in a Contested Illness
Living in Limbo
I just want permission to be ill
An exploration of food intolerance in the primary care setting
Doing things with illness. The micro politics of the CFS clinic
Caught up in Care
Negotiating the diagnostic uncertainty of contested illnesses
Self-Help Literature and the Making of an Illness Identity
A matter of balance. Positioning of parents' selves through negotiations of symptoms' meaning at a pain clinic for children/young people
From a lived body to a medicalized body
The Nature of Suffering
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
Illness as Narrative
Pain as Human Experience
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Culture and somatic experience
Improvisation and authority in illness meaning
From sentence to sequence
Pain as Human Experience
Talk at Work
Framing Disease
Going to See the Doctor
An illness behavior paradigm
Pilgrimage of pain
Framing Disease
On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation
The Acultural Dimensions of Chronic Pain
Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness
Neurasthenia, Spasmophilia and Chronic Fatigue Syndromes in France
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and the medical encounter1
Illness and narrative
Interaction and Asymmetry in Clinical Discourse
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |