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This book represents a challenge to the influential medico-political discourse that seeks to classify and manage chronic pain as if it were a disease in its own right, while at the same time preserving its status as a symptom. The chapters in this volume confront this view with timely reminders that pain as lived experience remains an elusive and puzzling phenomenon (an APORIA) that cannot be better understood by putting aside its phenomenology and simplifying what is left to fit a metaphorical pigeon-hole as a distinct biomedical disease entity. The authors amply demonstrate that there are other useful frames of reference with equal or even better claims to both legitimacy and usefulness. Readers will be encouraged to contemplate the aporia in different contexts and expressed through a variety of experiences.
Contents
Introduction Gillian Bendelow and Mira Crouch PART 1: Complexities of Pain A Natural State without a Nature? Dealing with the Ambiguity of 'Pain' in Science and Ethics Sascha Benjamin Fink The Lived Experience of Pain: A Painful Journey for Medicine Milton Cohen and John Quintner Inflecting Pain: Expression, Acknowledgement and Interpersonal Space Hildur Kalman and Naomi Scheman Trajectory of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in Six Patients: A Roller-Coaster Ride Ruth Ellen Dubin PART 2: Stories of Pain Connecting Pain and Drug Use in GLBTQ Communities Ian Flaherty Journeys with Chronic Pain: Acquiring Stigma along the Way Amanda Nielsen Illness and Narrative Mary Buchinger Bodwell Pain and Personal Experience of Cancer: A Complex Intersection Heather McKenzie
