Inside Chronic Pain - An Intimate and Critical Account

"With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey."-David B. Morris

List of contents

Foreword by David B. MorrisIntroduction1. A Life Altered

2. That Which Has No Words, That Which Cannot Be Seen

3. Pain and the Self

4. Pain and the World of Pain Management

5. Pain Medicine

6. On Science and Time

7. Pain and Others

8. Where Are We with Chronic Pain?: A Patient's PerspectiveClinical Commentary by Scott M. Fishman, M.D.Resource Guide

Notes

Index

About the author

Lous Heshusius is Professor Emeritus of Education at York University. David B. Morris is University Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including The Culture of Pain. Dr. Scott M. Fishman is Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis, and President of the American Pain Foundation. He is the author of several books, among them Listening to Pain and The War on Pain.

Summary

"With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey."—David B. Morris

Product details

• Authors: Lous Heshusius
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9780801447969
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4796-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Culture and Politics of Health; The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work; Culture and Politics of Health
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Krankheiten und Störungen, MEDICAL / Diseases, Medical / Nursing, HEALTH & FITNESS / Pain Management