{"product_id":"pain-as-human-experience-an-anthropological-perspective-volume-31-paperback","title":"Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Volume 31 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary-Jo Delvecchio Good\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePaul Brodwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eByron J. Good\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronic 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropologists, scholars from the medical social sciences and humanities, and many general readers will be interested in \u003ci\u003ePain as Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition, behavioral medicine and pain specialists, psychiatrists, and primary care practitioners will find much that is relevant to their work in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary-Jo DelVecchio Good\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Medical Sociology at Harvard Medical School. \u003cb\u003ePaul E. Brodwin\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \u003cb\u003eByron J. Good\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School. \u003cb\u003eArthur Kleinman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry at Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45893135401157,"sku":"9780520075122","price":66.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/R406FDlOCv9780520075122.webp?v=1771919469","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/pain-as-human-experience-an-anthropological-perspective-volume-31-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}