Dimensions of Pain
eBook - ePub

Dimensions of Pain

Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dimensions of Pain

Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

About this book

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 isolating impact, the embodied expression of pain, pain and sexuality, gender and ethnicity, it also includes a cluster of three chapters discusses the phenomenon and experience of labour pains.

This volume revitalizes the study of pain, offering productive ways of carefully thinking through its different aspects and exploring the positive and enriching side of world-forming pain as well as its limiting aspects. It will be of interest to academics and students interested in pain from a range of backgrounds, including philosophy, sociology, nursing, midwifery, medicine and gender studies.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781136201295
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Health Care Delivery

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Introduction Dimensions of pain
  8. When language runs dry Pain, the imagination, and metaphor
  9. Intercorporeality and the sharability of pain*
  10. On the borderlands Chronic pain as crisis of identity
  11. Pain and sex(uality) among women suffering from vulvar pain
  12. The Cartesian mind in the abused body Dissociation and the mind–body dualism
  13. Between health and illness Positive pain and world-formation
  14. Doing pain “right” The pleasures of pain in aerial dance
  15. The good and normal pain Midwives' perception of pain in childbirth
  16. Birth work Suffering rituals in late modernity. A case study from a Swedish birth clinic
  17. Child, birth An aesthetic*
  18. Index
  19. 2nd Edition Evidence and Skills for Normal Labour and Birth
  20. 2nd Edition The Biological Basis of Clinical Observations
  21. 3rd Edition Intensive Care Nursing