{"product_id":"communicating-pain-stephanie-de-montalk-9781138611054","title":"Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering Through Language, Literature and Creative Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eCombining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, \u003ci\u003eCommunicating Pain \u003c\/i\u003eis a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie de Montalk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138611050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138611054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Stephanie de Montalk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087752311039,"sku":"9781138611054","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7fd8f25-24a4-44c0-ae38-9f2a74f3a894.jpg?v=1769101198","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/communicating-pain-stephanie-de-montalk-9781138611054","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}