'Camp Pain' - Talking With Chronic Pain Patients

Informationen zum Autor Jean E. Jackson is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia. Klappentext Pain is the most frequent cause of disability in America. And pain specialists estimate that as many as thirty to sixty million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain is a complex phenomenon--often extremely difficult to treat, and surprisingly Zusammenfassung Based on fieldwork in a pain treatment center, "Camp Pain" focuses on patients' perspectives—on their experiences of pain and what these experiences mean to them.

Product details

• Authors: Jean E Jackson, Jean E. Jackson, JACKSON JEAN E
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.1999
• EAN: 9780812217155
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1715-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous