Pain is the most frequent cause of disability in America. And pain specialists estimate that as many as thirty to sixty million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain is a complex phenomenon—often extremely difficult to treat, and surprisingly difficult to define.
Just as medical literature in general neglects the experience of illness, so the clinical literature on pain neglects the experience of pain. "Camp Pain" takes an approach different from most studies of chronic pain, which are typically written from a medical or social perspective. Based on a year's fieldwork in a pain treatment center, this book focuses on patients' perspectives—on their experiences of pain, what these experiences mean to them, and how this meaning is socially constructed.
Jackson explores the psychological burden imposed on many sufferers when they are judged not to have "real" pain, and by harsh moral judgments that sufferers are weak, malingering, or responsible in some way for their pain. Jackson also looks at the ways in which severe pain erodes and destroys personal identity, studying in particular the role of language.
While keeping her focus on patients' experiences, Jackson explores Western concepts of disease, health, mind, and body; assumptions about cause and effect; and notions of shame, guilt, and stigma. "Camp Pain" does not attempt to resolve the uncertainties and misperceptions associated with pain but rather aims at enhancing our understanding of the wider implications of chronic pain by focusing on the sufferers themselves.
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Jean E. Jackson is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia.
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This book covers a part of what chronic pain can do to the pain patient as well as those who love them. I am a chronic pain patient for 30 years now. We have so many more issues and problems than were discussed. I had hoped there would be more dealing with help for pain patients also.
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Teresa, a sculptor and body building instructor, had begun having severe back pain after a motorcycle accident fourteen years previously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
medication dependency, temporo mandibular joint disorder, intractable chronic pain, religious ordeals, chronic pain sufferers, pain habits, embodied pain, pain literature, severe chronic pain, reality confrontation, pain behavior, chronic pain patients, everyday lifeworld, pain centers, ruptured disk, fellow patients, incoming patients, intentional communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Teresa, a sculptor and body building instructor, had begun having severe back pain after a motorcycle accident fourteen years previously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
medication dependency, temporo mandibular joint disorder, intractable chronic pain, religious ordeals, chronic pain sufferers, pain habits, embodied pain, pain literature, severe chronic pain, reality confrontation, pain behavior, chronic pain patients, everyday lifeworld, pain centers, ruptured disk, fellow patients, incoming patients, intentional communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Psychology of Pain by Richard A. Sternbach on 4 pages
- Textbook of Pain by Patrick D. Wall FRS DM FRCP on 4 pages
- Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Science S/G in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory by Mike Featherstone in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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