Scientifi c discourses on chronic pain without organic cause Incorporating gender perspective for pain resignifyng-repoliticizing

Chronic pain, without any organic or physical cause (DC), which in psycho-medical terminology is known as fi bromyalgia, (FM), is diagnosed each year to a considerable number of women in capitalistic societies. Our main interest in the following paper is to go in depth in the elaboration of this symptom, its treatment and the psychosocial effects, both in the social order as well as in the lives of the people who suffer from it. Our main goal in the following paper is to look deeper in the elaboration (conceptualization) of this symptom, its treatment and psychological affects, both in the social order as well as in the lives of the people who suffer from it, we are using linked speeches in Spanish magazines publications. The result has been the emergence of three hegemonic discourse positions: One position ���scientist���, one ���therapeutic of the conformity��� position and one ���economic and legalistic��� position. Each of these has a specifi c feature, but on the whole, is enhanced, producing effects such as the absence of social context to explain the disease; disregard of gender differences in the management and treatment; the instrumentalization of pain to legitimize their practices and the subjection of women to the ���psycho-biomedical��� paradigm. In that way, a new signifi cance and politicization of the concept of pain is proposed.

El diagnóstico de la crisis de la cultura en Espa��a: del recorte p��blico a la crisis sist��mica

Desde su invenci��n en los a��os cincuenta, la pol��tica cultural ha sido objeto de an��lisis y reflexi��n por parte de las ciencias sociales. No obstante, en Espa��a presenta una serie de caracter��sticas diferenciadoras frente a las democracias occidentales europeas como consecuencia del periodo franquista. Con la recuperaci��n de la democracia Espa��a adquiere el paradigma dominante de una pol��tica cultural democr��tica basada en la libertad, el pluralismo y el derecho a la cultura. Sin embargo, tras d��cadas de gobiernos democr��ticos el diagnóstico de la pol��tica cultural en Espa��a presenta rasgos de crisis sist��mica, adem��s de los efectos de la crisis global financiera de inicios del siglo XXI. En este contexto, los autores diagnostican, aplicando la metodolog��a Delphi y recurriendo a fuentes secundarias, un conjunto de discursos sociales y narrativas que parecen funcionar como recursos cognitivos solucionistas en la esfera art��stica y cultural y que no est��n exentos de contradicciones y apor��as, fruto de su contraste emp��rico.