Heterodox and Orthodox Discourses in the Case of Lyme Disease
A Synthesis of Arguments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4679875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Hinds (0000-0002-2092-5700, University College London, London, United Kingdom, corresponding author), Katy Sutcliffe (0000-0002-5469-8649, University College London, London, United Kingdom) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1661-1673 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732319846170 |
| PMID | 31079542 |
| OpenAlex | W2946590510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
In this article, we examine the arguments made by authors of published academic articles concerning the debates surrounding chronic Lyme disease (CLD). CLD is an example of a contested condition and shares problems of legitimacy with other medically unexplained conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome. We use a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to understand the arguments of the authors to establish the legitimacy, or not, of a CLD diagnosis. This enabled us to make sense of the nature of the stalemate between patient groups and advocates of the medical establishment, as performed by authors of academic articles. In this article, we bring together the arguments to explain the polemical debate and to support accounts that avoid the impasse to give us greater insight into the experience of chronic illness
Chronic disease · Chronic fatigue syndrome · Epistemology · Family medicine · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Lyme disease · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Stalemate · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Public Health and Social Inequalities · Vector-borne infectious diseases
A General Critical Discourse Analysis Framework for Educational Research
Discourse and social change
Evidence-based activism
Advancing the Field of Synthesis Scholarship
Patient activism and the struggle for diagnosis
Metasynthetic Madness
Living in Limbo
I just want permission to be ill
The classification and nomenclature of 'medically unexplained symptoms
Pragmatics of explanation
Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization
Embodied health movements
Illnesses you have to fight to get
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |