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"Camp Pain"

Talking with Chronic Pain Patients

Autor: Jean E. Jackson
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: University of Pennsylvania Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Pain is the most frequent cause of disability in America. And pain specialists estimate that as many...

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Autor
Jean E. Jackson
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
1999
Pagini
280
EAN
9780812217155
ISBN
0812217152
Enbook ID
04723226
Editura
University of Pennsylvania Press
Greutate
460
Dimensiuni
233 x 155 x 20

Descriere completă

Pain is the most frequent cause of disability in America. And pain specialists estimate that as many as thirty to sixty million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain is a complex phenomenon-often extremely difficult to treat, and surprisingly difficult to define. Just as medical literature in general neglects the experience of illness, so the clinical literature on pain neglects the experience of pain. "Camp Pain" takes an approach different from most studies of chronic pain, which are typically written from a medical or social perspective. Based on a year's fieldwork in a pain treatment center, this book focuses on patients' perspectives-on their experiences of pain, what these experiences mean to them, and how this meaning is socially constructed. Jackson explores the psychological burden imposed on many sufferers when they are judged not to have "real" pain, and by harsh moral judgments that sufferers are weak, malingering, or responsible in some way for their pain. Jackson also looks at the ways in which severe pain erodes and destroys personal identity, studying in particular the role of language. While keeping her focus on patients' experiences, Jackson explores Western concepts of disease, health, mind, and body; assumptions about cause and effect; and notions of shame, guilt, and stigma. "Camp Pain" does not attempt to resolve the uncertainties and misperceptions associated with pain but rather aims at enhancing our understanding of the wider implications of chronic pain by focusing on the sufferers themselves.

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