All in your head [electronic resource] : making sense of pediatric pain / Mara Buchbinder.
2015
RJ365 .B83 2015eb
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All in your head [electronic resource] : making sense of pediatric pain / Mara Buchbinder.
Author
Buchbinder, Mara, author.
ISBN
9780520960763 electronic book
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (250 pages)
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RJ365 .B83 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
618.92/0472
Summary
"Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful attention to the language of pain--including narratives, conversations, models, and metaphors--and detailed analysis of how young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others, her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of it is profoundly social"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The bottom of the funnel
The smart clinic
Sticky brains
Treating the family
Locating pain in societal stress.
The smart clinic
Sticky brains
Treating the family
Locating pain in societal stress.