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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

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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 ...