Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine

by Abigail A. Dumes

Book Overview

While many doctors claim that Lyme disease-a tick-borne bacterial infection-is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic treatment in the form of chronic Lyme disease. In Divided Bodies, Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy that sheds light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006668
• ISBN13: 9781478006664
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"