All in your head : making sense of pediatric pain / / Mara Buchbinder

• Autore: Buchbinder Mara
• Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92/0472
• Soggetto topico: Pain in children; Pain in children - Social aspects; Pain - Social aspects; Pain clinics - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: adolescent patients; biomedicine; children with unexplained pain; chronic pain in kids; chronic pain; feeling pain; illness in children and teens; mysterious ailments; mysterious illness; neurobiology of pain; neurobiology; pain clinics; pain in children; pain management; pain symptoms children and teens; pain symptoms kids; pediatric pain management; pediatric pain; teenager chronic pain; unexplained pain; west clinic california
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The bottom of the funnel -- The smart clinic -- Sticky brains -- Treating the family -- Locating pain in societal stress.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful attention to the language of pain--including narratives, conversations, models, and metaphors--and detailed analysis of how young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others, her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of it is profoundly social"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: All in your head
• ISBN: 0-520-28522-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818329003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II