Description |
ix, 143 p. : ill. |
Series |
Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : dimensions of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Kall -- When language runs dry : pain, the imagination, and metaphor / David Biro -- Intercorporeality and the sharability of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Kall -- On the borderlands : chronic pain as crisis of identity / Anna Gotlib -- Pain and sex(uality) among women suffering from vulvar pain / Renita Sorensdotter -- The Cartesian mind in the abused body : dissociation and the mind body dualism / Peg O'Connor -- Between health and illness : positive pain and world-formation / Sheena Hyland -- Doing pain 'right' : the pleasures of pain in aerial dance / Jillian Deri and Wendy Mendes -- The good and normal pain : midwives' perception of pain in childbirth / Jenny Gleisner -- Birth work : suffering rituals in late modernity. A case study from a Swedish birth-clinic / Diana Mulinari -- Child, birth : an aesthetic / Cressida J. Heyes. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Pain -- Psychological aspects.
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Pain -- Diagnosis.
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Pain perception.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Kall, Lisa Folkmarson.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9780415635752 (hbk) |
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9780203087381 (electronic bk.) |
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