Dimensions of Pain Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

Name: Dimensions of Pain Humanities and Social Science Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780415635752

ISBN-10: 0415635756

ISBN-13: 9780415635752

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lisa Folkmarson Kï¿½ll

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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. Carefully interrogating 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 Painexplores 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 isolating impact, the embodied expression of pain, pain and sexuality, gender, ethnicity and disability, it also…

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.37" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Introduction: Dimensions of Pain




When Language Runs Dry: Pain, the Imagination, and Metaphor




Intercorporeality and the Sharability of Pain




On the Borderlands: Chronic Pain as Crisis of Identity




Pain and Sex(uality) among Women Suffering from Vulvar Pain




The Cartesian Mind in the Abused Body: Dissociation and the Mind Body Dualism




Between Health and Illness: Positive Pain and World-formation




Doing Pain ï¿½Ç Right:' The Pleasures of Pain in Aerial Dance




The Good and Normal Pain: Midwives' Perception of Pain in Childbirth




Birth Work: Suffering Rituals in Late Modernity. A Case Study from a Swedish Birth-Clinic




Child, Birth: An Aesthetic