Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Volume 31

Bys: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Paul Brodwin, Byron J. Good, et al.

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 innovative volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520075129
• ISBN13: 9780520075122
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"