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dc.contributor.authorEriksen, Thor Eirik
dc.contributor.authorRisør, Mette Bech
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-06T11:40:08Z
dc.date.available2014-03-06T11:40:08Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThere is one concept in medicine which is prominent, the symptom. The omnipresence of the symptom seems, however, not to be reflected by an equally prominent curiosity aimed at investigating this concept as a phenomenon. In classic, traditional or conventional medical diagnostics and treatment, the lack of distinction with respect to the symptom represents a minor problem. Faced with enigmatic conditions and their accompanying labels such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), and functional somatic syndromes (FSS), the contestation of the symptom and its origin is immediate and obvious and calls for further exploration. Based on a description of the diagnostic framework encompassing medically unexplained conditions and a brief introduction to how such symptoms are managed both within and outside of the medical clinic, we argue on one hand how unexplained conditions invite us to reconsider and re-think the concept we call a ―symptom‖ and on the other hand how the concept ―symptom‖ is no longer an adequate and necessary fulcrum and must be enriched by socio-cultural, phenomenological and existential dimensions. Consequently, our main aim is to expand both our interpretative horizon and the linguistic repertoire in the face of those appearances we label medically unexplained symptoms.en
dc.identifier.citationMedicine, Health care and Philosophy (2014), vol.17(1):89-102en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1043886
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-013-9501-5
dc.identifier.issn1386-7423
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/5919
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_5616
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherKluwer Academic/Plenum Publishersen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750::Family practice: 751en
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Allmennmedisin: 751en
dc.titleWhat is called symptom?en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen
dc.typePeer revieweden


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