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Identities in Pain by Susanne Ewert & Jonas Frykman & Nadia Seremitaki
Pain, while a private experience, is culturally permeated by patterns, rules, conventions and meanings. This volume discusses this coding from a range of anthropological, ethnological and sociological perspectives. Readers are invited to follow the life histories of people suffering pain.Greek and Swedish ethnologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists and psychologists provide 11 essays which aim to describe how people handle pain culturally and how they define themselves and those around them. The essays take up life histories of people suffering pain, of those trying to come to grips with psychosomatic disorders, of children exposed to traumatic experiences, and of patients living with leprosy. They also discuss: the problems that people encounter when exposed to diagnosis of elevated cholesterol levels; how notions of masculinity have been forged through asceticism towards pain; and how death, body, pain, and suffering are interpreted in different cultural settings. |
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| ISBN-10 : 9189116011 | ISBN-13 : 9789189116016 |
| RRP : £15.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : Sweden
Publication Date : 01/01/1998
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press,Sweden
Page Length : 223mm
Page Size : 215mm