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Painscapes

Communicating Pain

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Editors:
  1. EJ Gonzalez-Polledo

    1. Department of Anthropology Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Jen Tarr

    1. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

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  • Brings together interdisciplinary contributions from the social sciences, humanities visual and performing arts
  • Posits that pain is not just a sensation inside the body or limited to one individual but is an experience that is expressed and emergent via different frameworks and devices of communication
  • Examines how chronic pain is expressed and communicated

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Painscapes

    • EJ Gonzalez-Polledo
    Pages 1-23

  3. ‘The Sad Language of Pain’: S. Weir Mitchell, the American Civil War, and Interpreting Physical Suffering

    • Lucy Bending
    Pages 25-40

  4. An Essay on the Space Outside Pain Where the Poem Takes Place

    • Jude Rosen
    Pages 41-60

  5. Act Like It Hurts: Questions of Role and Authenticity in the Communication of Chronic Pain

    • Sarah Goldingay
    Pages 61-81

  6. Articulating Pain: Writing the Autoimmune Self

    • Alice Andrews
    Pages 83-105

  7. Exhibiting Pain, Death and Grief: From the Art Gallery to the Image Shared Online

    • Montse Morcate
    Pages 107-127

  8. Pain and the Internet: Transforming the Experience?

    • Nikki Newhouse, Helen Atherton, Sue Ziebland
    Pages 129-155

  9. Photography and Mental Illness: Feeding or Combating the Stigma of Invisible Pain Online and Offline

    • Rebeca Pardo
    Pages 157-182

  10. ADJOIN

    • Trish O’Shea, Mark Wilkinson, Jackie Jones
    Pages 183-204

  11. Face2face: Sharing the Photograph Within Medical Pain Encounters—A Means of Democratisation

    • Deborah Padfield, Joanna M. Zakrzewska
    Pages 205-228

  12. Painscapes and Method

    • Jen Tarr
    Pages 229-248

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 249-254
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About this book

This book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds of relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies. Each chapter offers a unique window onto the notoriously difficult problem of how pain is defined and communicated. The contributors reimagine the value of images and photography, poetry, history, drama, stories and interviews, not as ‘better’ representations of the pain experience, but as devices to navigate the complexity of pain across different physical, social, and intersubjective domains. 

This innovative collection provides a new access point to the phenomenon of pain and the materialities, affects, structures and institutions that constitute it. This book will appeal to readers seeking to better understand pain’s complexity and the social and affective ecologies through which pain is known, communicated and lived.


Reviews

“An explosion of interest in embodiment by social science and humanities scholars since the 1990's has precipitated sophisticated conceptual understandings of  the social, philosophical and emotional dimensions of pain alongside the physiological and clinical aspects, as elucidated in Dame Cicely Saunders  notion of ‘total pain.’ Painscapes provides a wonderful example of how researchers and practitioners can be meaningfully incorporate the  ‘lived experience’ of pain in its multi-layered complexity to provide illuminating insights. By translating knowledge and experience across multi- disciplinary creative pathways and communication through visual and narrative techniques and communications,the  often solitary incarceration of enduring pain may be challenged and vividly articulated.” (Gillian Bendelow, Professor in Sociology of Health and Medicine, University of Brighton, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    EJ Gonzalez-Polledo

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

    Jen Tarr

About the editors

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Lecturer in the department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Jen Tarr is Assistant Professor of Research Methodology in the Department of Methodology at the LSE, UK.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Painscapes

  • Book Subtitle: Communicating Pain

  • Editors: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Jen Tarr

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95272-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95271-7Published: 24 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95781-1Published: 28 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95272-4Published: 13 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medical Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse, Sociology of the Body, Communication Studies

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