Dimensions of pain : humanities and social science perspectives / / edited by Lisa Folkmarson Kall
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| Titolo: |
Dimensions of pain : humanities and social science perspectives / / edited by Lisa Folkmarson Kall
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616/.0472 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pain - Psychological aspects |
| Pain - Diagnosis | |
| Pain perception | |
| Altri autori: |
KallLisa Folkmarson
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dimensions of pain |
| ISBN: | 0-203-08738-0 |
| 1-283-86115-1 | |
| 1-136-20130-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786451403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness.