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- catalog abstract ""Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experience and social context. Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession seemingly unable to explain or effectively treat their illness. The authors of this innovative volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searching out more effective ways to describe and analyze the human context of pain. How can we analyze a mode of experience that appears to the pain sufferer as an unmediated fact of the body and is yet so resistant to language? With case studies drawn from anthropological investigations of chronic pain sufferers and pain clinics in the northeastern United States, the authors explore the great divide between the culturally shaped language of suffering and the traditional language of medical and psychological theorizing. They argue that the representation of experience in local social worlds is a central challenge to the human sciences and to ethnographic writing, and that meeting that challenge is also crucial to the refiguring of pain in medical discourse and health policy debates. Anthropologists, scholars from the medical social sciences and humanities, and many general readers will be interested in Pain as Human Experience. In addition, behavioral medicine and pain specialists, psychiatrists, and primary care practitioners will find much that is relevant to their work in this book."--Publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b10187103.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experience and social context. Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession seemingly unable to explain or effectively treat their illness. The authors of this innovative volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searching out more effective ways to describe and analyze the human context of pain. How can we analyze a mode of experience that appears to the pain sufferer as an unmediated fact of the body and is yet so resistant to language? With case studies drawn from anthropological investigations of chronic pain sufferers and pain clinics in the northeastern United States, the authors explore the great divide between the culturally shaped language of suffering and the traditional language of medical and psychological theorizing. They argue that the representation of experience in local social worlds is a central challenge to the human sciences and to ethnographic writing, and that meeting that challenge is also crucial to the refiguring of pain in medical discourse and health policy debates. Anthropologists, scholars from the medical social sciences and humanities, and many general readers will be interested in Pain as Human Experience. In addition, behavioral medicine and pain specialists, psychiatrists, and primary care practitioners will find much that is relevant to their work in this book."--Publisher's description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Pain as human experience : an introduction / Arthur Kleinman ... [et al.] -- A body in pain : the making of a world of chronic pain / Byron J. Good -- Work as a haven from pain / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- Symptoms and social performances : the case of Diane Reden / Paul E. Brodwin -- Chronic illness and the construction of narratives / Linda C. Garro -- "After a while no one believes you" : real and unreal pain / Jean E. Jackson -- Pain and resistance : the delegitimation and relegitimation of local worlds / Arthur Kleinman.".
- catalog extent "vii, 214 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0520075129 (pbk)".
- catalog isPartOf "Comparative studies of health systems and medical care".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "306.461 20".
- catalog subject "GN296 .P35 1994".
- catalog subject "Humans Pain".
- catalog subject "Medical anthropology.".
- catalog subject "Pain Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pain as human experience : an introduction / Arthur Kleinman ... [et al.] -- A body in pain : the making of a world of chronic pain / Byron J. Good -- Work as a haven from pain / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- Symptoms and social performances : the case of Diane Reden / Paul E. Brodwin -- Chronic illness and the construction of narratives / Linda C. Garro -- "After a while no one believes you" : real and unreal pain / Jean E. Jackson -- Pain and resistance : the delegitimation and relegitimation of local worlds / Arthur Kleinman.".
- catalog title "Pain as human experience : an anthropological perspective / edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "text".