Back‐pain patients in the US may undergo multiple surgeries in search of relief, enduring a sometimes‐stunning repetition of procedures that can actually intensify and extend their pain. Such outcomes have now been rendered as an illness with its own diagnostic label: “failed back surgery syndrome.” Producing both pathology and profit, this surgical seriality reflects the ambivalence of pain (and its treatments) in the US and maps the mutual mediation of pharmaceutical and surgical therapeutic modes in contemporary biomedicine. For both patients and doctors, the surgicalization of back pain confirms that pain is real and serious, and also conforms to valued forms of (productive, nonnarcotized) life. It thus reflects and reinscribes situated social ideals of embodied and moral personhood in the contemporary US. [failed back surgery syndrome, surgical seriality, pain, medicalization, pharmaceuticalization, surgicalization, moral personhood, United States]

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在美国，腰痛患者可能需要进行多次外科手术以寻求缓解，忍受有时令人震惊的重复操作，这些操作实际上会加剧并延长他们的痛苦。这些结果现在已被标记为一种疾病，带有自己的诊断标签：“失败的背部手术综合症”。既产生病理学又产生利润，这种外科手术序列反映了美国疼痛的痛苦（及其治疗方法），并描绘了现代生物医学中药物和外科治疗模式的相互中介。对于患者和医生而言，背部疼痛的手术都证实了疼痛是真实而严重的，并且也符合（生产性，非麻醉性）生活的重要形式。因此，它反映并重新铭刻了当代美国体现的体现为人格和道德人格的社会理想。[背部手术失败综合征，手术序列，疼痛，医疗，药物化，手术，道德人格，美国]