| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 143 pages) |
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Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness |
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Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness.
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| Contents |
Introduction : dimensions of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Käll -- When language runs dry : pain, the imagination, and metaphor / David Biro -- Intercorporeality and the sharability of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Käll -- On the borderlands : chronic pain as crisis of identity / Anna Gotlib -- Pain and sex(uality) among women suffering from vulvar pain / Renita Sörensdotter -- The Cartesian mind in the abused body : dissociation and the mind body dualism / Peg O'Connor -- Between health and illness : positive pain and world-formation / Sheena Hyland -- Doing pain 'right' : the pleasures of pain in aerial dance / Jillian Deri and Wendy Mendes -- The good and normal pain : midwives' perception of pain in childbirth / Jenny Gleisner -- Birth work : suffering rituals in late modernity. A case study from a Swedish birth-clinic / Diana Mulinari -- Child, birth : an aesthetic / Cressida J. Heyes |
| Summary |
Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences of pain, this book explores the way in which pain is situated, communicated and formed in a larger cultural and social context. Dimensions of Pain explores the lived experience of pain, and questions of identity and pain, from a range of different disciplinary perspectives within the humanities and social sciences. Discussing the acuity and temporality of pain, its iso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pain -- Physiological aspects.
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Pain -- Social aspects
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Pain -- psychology
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Labor Pain -- psychology
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Pain Perception
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Pain -- diagnosis
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pain Management.
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MEDICAL -- Pain Medicine.
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Pain -- Physiological aspects
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Pain -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Käll, Lisa Folkmarson.
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| ISBN |
9781136201301 |
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1136201300 |
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9780203087381 |
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0203087380 |
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