May, Carl; Doyle, Helen; Chew-Graham, Carolyn - In: Social Science & Medicine 48 (1999) 4, pp. 523-534
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is endemic in Western societies, and while a good deal of attention has been paid to the lay experience of such pain, much less sociological attention has been paid to the way in which medical ideas about it have been formulated. This paper takes the latter course,...