Cicely Saunders and Total Pain : Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life (Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine)

Wood, Joe

Edinburgh University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399531078
• DDC分類 306.461

Full Description

Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders' term 'total pain' has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person's pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological, social and spiritual. 'Total pain' clearly summarises Saunders' whole-person, multidisciplinary outlook but is it a phenomenon, an intervention framework, a care approach - or something else? This book disregards the idea that Saunders' phrase has one coherent meaning and instead explores the multiple interpretations now current in contemporary professional discourse. Using close reading of Saunders' extensive publications, as well as archival evidence and Saunders' own personal library, it situates the current usage of 'total pain' in wider histories of clinical holism, questions its similarity to later ideas of narrative medicine, and explores how it might express the ambiguities of bearing witness to pain and vulnerability when someone is dying.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface

Introduction: Pinning Down the Intangible

Part I. Holism

1. Saunders' Use of 'Total Pain'
2. Uses and Definitions of 'Total Pain' After Saunders: Many Holisms
3. Criticising 'Total Pain': Definite Concept or Ambiguous Term?

Part II. Narrative
4. 'Total Pain' and Narrative Medicine: A Sense of an Ending
5. Defending a Narrative 'Total Pain': Narrative vs. Narrating
6. Using Narratives to Express 'Total Pain'

Part III. Fragments and Silence
7. Quotations and Fragments: The Limits of Narrative
8. Photographs: Looking for/at 'Total Pain'
9. No Words: Presence and 'Total Pain'

Conclusion: 'Total Pain' Now

Bibliography
Index