| Description |
vii, 214 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
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Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
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| Summary |
With case studies drawn from anthropological investigations of chronic pain sufferers and pain clinics in the northeastern United States, the authors explore the great divide between the culturally shaped language of suffering and the traditional language of medical and psychological theorizing. They argue that the representation of experience in local social worlds is a central challenge to the human sciences and to ethnographic writing, and that meeting that challenge is also crucial to the refiguring of pain in medical discourse and health policy debates. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology.
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Pain -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio.
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| ISBN |
0520075129 (paperback) |
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