All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain

by Mara Buchbinder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520285220
• ISBN13: 9780520285224
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"