Dimensions of Pain - Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Folkmarson Käll is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University and Research Associate of Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Centre for Dementia Research, Linköping University, Sweden. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Dimensions of Pain Lisa Folkmarson Käll 2. When Language Runs Dry: Pain, the Imagination, and Metaphor David Biro 3. Intercorporeality and the Sharability of Pain Lisa Folkmarson Käll 4. On the Borderlands: Chronic Pain as Crisis of Identity Anna Gotlib 5. Pain and Sex(uality) among Women Suffering from Vulvar Pain Renita Sörensdotter 6. The Cartesian Mind in the Abused Body: Dissociation and the Mind Body Dualism Peg O’Connor 7. Between Health and Illness: Positive Pain and World-formation Sheena Hyland 8. Doing Pain ‘Right:’ The Pleasures of Pain in Aerial Dance Jillian Deri and Wendy Mendes 9. The Good and Normal Pain: Midwives’ Perception of Pain in Childbirth Jenny Gleisner 10. Birth Work: Suffering Rituals in Late Modernity. A Case Study from a Swedish Birth-Clinic Diana Mulinari 11. Child, Birth: An Aesthetic Cressida J. Heyes

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lisa Folkmarson Kall, Lisa (Uppsala University Folkmarson Kall
• Mitarbeit: Lisa Folkmarson Käll (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.09.2012
• EAN: 9780415635752
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63575-2
• Seiten: 160
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Anthropology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Nursing / Anesthesia, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Human biology, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Personal and public health / health education, Medical Anthropology