This chapter will consider how the lack of knowledge about women’s bodieswomen’s bodies, the construction of women’s painpain as ‘uncredibleuncredible’, and the distress which comes from being disbelieved coalesces as a distinct practice of harm. It will examine how these factors result in continued misdiagnoses of women’s chronic conditions, leading to worsening of symptoms and irreversible complications, sometimes with fatal consequences. Considering these multiple forms of harm, and the embodied experience of chronic painchronic pain itself, it will argue that chronic painpain can itself be experienced as traumatic.

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Do No Harm?

  • Eilidh Galbraith

摘要

This chapter will consider how the lack of knowledge about women’s bodieswomen’s bodies, the construction of women’s painpain as ‘uncredibleuncredible’, and the distress which comes from being disbelieved coalesces as a distinct practice of harm. It will examine how these factors result in continued misdiagnoses of women’s chronic conditions, leading to worsening of symptoms and irreversible complications, sometimes with fatal consequences. Considering these multiple forms of harm, and the embodied experience of chronic painchronic pain itself, it will argue that chronic painpain can itself be experienced as traumatic.