Tenderness (central), sensitivity and/or distress: Tracing gendered enactments of fibromyalgia in medical research
Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Published online on May 11, 2026
Abstract
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Despite being unrelated to feminized organs or bodily processes, the contested condition called fibromyalgia is said to be overwhelmingly feminized and diagnosed predominantly in (assumed-) women. Few social scientific studies have explored the reasons or ...
Despite being unrelated to feminized organs or bodily processes, the contested condition called fibromyalgia is said to be overwhelmingly feminized and diagnosed predominantly in (assumed-) women. Few social scientific studies have explored the reasons or ...