Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Volume 31
(Part of the Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series)
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Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experience and social context. Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession seemingly unable to explain or effectively treat their illness. The authors of this innovative volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searching...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520075129
ISBN13:9780520075122
Release Date:November 1994
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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