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The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority and Women's Worlds of Pain
By Kristin K. Barker. 252 pp. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2005. $68.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). ISBN 1-59213-160-3 (cloth); 1-59213-161-1 (paper).

Fibromyalgia and Other Central Pain Syndromes
Edited by Daniel J. Wallace and Daniel J. Clauw. 421 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005. $89.95. ISBN 0-7817-5261-2.

These are important books. They offer little to salve the patient bearing the "fibromyalgia" label. They offer little to enhance the effectiveness of the clinician who did the labeling. But they offer much for scholars of many disciplines who seek to understand the experience of pain, and to cast mind–body duality in a modern light. These books are well-written expositions on the preconceptions of highly disparate academic traditions.

"Fibromyalgia" is the neologism adopted in 1990 by the members of a committee who were convinced that no other rubric did justice . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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