All in your head : making sense of pediatric pain / Mara Buchbinder.

  • Buchbinder, Mara
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful attention to the language of pain--including narratives, conversations, models, and metaphors--and detailed analysis of how young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others, her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of it is profoundly social"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Physical description

xv, 233 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index.

Contents

The bottom of the funnel -- The smart clinic -- Sticky brains -- Treating the family -- Locating pain in societal stress.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WL704 2015B91a
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780520285217 (cloth)
  • 0520285212 (cloth)
  • 9780520285224 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520285220 (pbk. : alk. paper)