Camp Pain: Talking with Chronic Pain Patients

by Jean E. Jackson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217152
• ISBN13: 9780812217155
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"