A Baffling Phenomenon -- Summer Camp? Boot Camp? An Introduction to CPC -- The Painful Journey -- "Getting with the Program" -- Building and Resisting Community -- "Winners": CPC Converts -- Me/Not-Me: Self, Language, and Pain -- Conclusions: The Puzzles of Pain
Summary
Based on fieldwork in a pain treatment center, "Camp Pain" focuses on patients' perspectives-on their experiences of pain and what these experiences mean to them
Analysis
Anthropology
Caregiving
Folklore
Health
Linguistics
Medicine
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-261) and index