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"Camp Pain": Talking with Chronic Pain Patients
Jean E. Jackson
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Description for "Camp Pain": Talking with Chronic Pain Patients
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
Pain is the most frequent cause of disability in America. And pain specialists estimate that as many as thirty to sixty million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain is a complex phenomenon-often extremely difficult to treat, and surprisingly difficult to define. Just as medical literature in general neglects the experience of illness, so the clinical literature on pain neglects the experience of pain. Camp Pain takes an approach different from most studies of chronic pain, which are typically written from a medical or social perspective. Based on a year's fieldwork in a ... Read more
Pain is the most frequent cause of disability in America. And pain specialists estimate that as many as thirty to sixty million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain is a complex phenomenon-often extremely difficult to treat, and surprisingly difficult to define. Just as medical literature in general neglects the experience of illness, so the clinical literature on pain neglects the experience of pain. Camp Pain takes an approach different from most studies of chronic pain, which are typically written from a medical or social perspective. Based on a year's fieldwork in a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812217155
SKU
V9780812217155
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99-15
About Jean E. Jackson
Jean E. Jackson is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia.
Reviews for "Camp Pain": Talking with Chronic Pain Patients
An unusual and fascinating book. -Choice