Introduction : dimensions of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Käll
When language runs dry : pain, the imagination, and metaphor / David Biro
Intercorporeality and the sharability of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Käll
On the borderlands : chronic pain as crisis of identity / Anna Gotlib
Pain and sex(uality) among women suffering from vulvar pain / Renita Sörensdotter
The Cartesian mind in the abused body : dissociation and the mind body dualism / Peg O'Connor
Between health and illness : positive pain and world-formation / Sheena Hyland
Doing pain 'right' : the pleasures of pain in aerial dance / Jillian Deri and Wendy Mendes
The good and normal pain : midwives' perception of pain in childbirth / Jenny Gleisner
Birth work : suffering rituals in late modernity. A case study from a Swedish birth-clinic / Diana Mulinari
Child, birth : an aesthetic / Cressida J. Heyes.