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List of contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter One: Pain as Human Experience: An Introduction
Arthur Kleinman, Paul E. Brodwin, Byron]. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Chapter Two: A Body in Pain-The Making of a World of Chronic Pain
Byron]. Good
Chapter Three: Work as a Haven from Pain
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Chapter Four: Symptoms and Social Performances: The Case of Diane Reden
Paul E. Brodwin
Chapter Five: Chronic Illness and the Construction of Narratives
Linda C. Garro
Chapter Six: "After a While No One Believes You": Real and Unreal Pain
jean E. Jackson
Chapter Seven: Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and Relegitimation of
Local Worlds
Arthur Kleinman
Epilogue
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron]. Good, Arthur Kleinman,
Paul E. Brodwin
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
About the author
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Associate Professor of Medical Sociology at Harvard Medical School. Paul E. Brodwin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School. Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry at Harvard University.
Summary
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. This volume searches out more effective ways to describe and analyze the human context of pain.
