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Living Through Pain
Kristin M. Swenson
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Description for Living Through Pain
Hardcover. Pain disintegrates a person, fracturing self and relationships. This title charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage it. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 420.
Pain disintegrates a person, fracturing self and relationships. In Living Through Pain Kristin M. Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage it. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person - body, mind, spirit, and community - Swenson consults an ancient resource for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Swenson shows how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary ... Read more
Pain disintegrates a person, fracturing self and relationships. In Living Through Pain Kristin M. Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage it. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person - body, mind, spirit, and community - Swenson consults an ancient resource for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Swenson shows how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781932792157
SKU
V9781932792157
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Ref
99-19
About Kristin M. Swenson
Kristin M. Swenson (Ph.D. Boston University) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Reviews for Living Through Pain
Swenson shows how the psalms can help people to renew meaning in their lives, without ever imposing that meaning. - Arthur W. Frank, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, author of The Wounded Storyteller and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live