{"product_id":"pain-as-human-experience-mary-jo-delvecchio-good-9780520075122","title":"Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Volume 31","description":"Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experience and social context. 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. The authors of this innovative volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searching out more effective ways to describe and analyze the human context of pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can we analyze a mode of experience that appears to the pain sufferer as an unmediated fact of the body and is yet so resistant to language? With case studies drawn from anthropological investigations of chronic pain sufferers and pain clinics in the northeastern United States, the authors explore the great divide between the culturally shaped language of suffering and the traditional language of medical and psychological theorizing. They argue that the representation of experience in local social worlds is a central challenge to the human sciences and to ethnographic writing, and that meeting that challenge is also crucial to the refiguring of pain in medical discourse and health policy debates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropologists, scholars from the medical social sciences and humanities, and many general readers will be interested in \u003ci\u003ePain as Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition, behavioral medicine and pain specialists, psychiatrists, and primary care practitioners will find much that is relevant to their work in this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520075129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520075122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.02w x 0.64d","brand":"Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180126331135,"sku":"9780520075122","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c615e64-f6d9-45d2-a9fb-a5a004b30558.jpg?v=1712897546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pain-as-human-experience-mary-jo-delvecchio-good-9780520075122","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}