Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective

Bys: Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good and Paul E. Brodwin

Book Overview

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 volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searching out more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520075110
• ISBN13: 9780520075115
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 214 Pages