Camp pain : talking with chronic pain patients / Jean E. Jackson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1943-

Contributor:

• University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chronic pain--Psychological aspects.
• Chronic pain.
• Pain clinics.
• Pain--psychology.
• Chronic Disease.
• Pain Clinics.

Medical Subjects:

• Pain--psychology.
• Chronic Disease.
• Pain Clinics.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 281 pages)

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2000]

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Summary:

• 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. Severe 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 science perspective. Based on a year's fieldwork in a pain treatment center, this book focuses on patients' perspectives -- on their experiences of pain, what these experiences mean to them, and how this meaning is socially constructed.
• Jackson explores the psychological burden imposed on many sufferers when they are judged not to have "real" pain, and by harsh moral judgments that sufferers are weal malingering, or responsible in some way for their pain. Jackson also looks at the ways in which severe pain erodes and destroys personal identity, studying in particular the role of language.
• While keeping her focus on patients' experiences, Jackson explores Western concepts of disease, health, mind, and body; assumptions about cause and effect; and notions of shame, guilt, and stigma. "Camp Pain" does not attempt to resolve the uncertainties and misperceptions associated with pain but rather aims at enhancing our understanding of the wider implications of chronic pain by focusing on the sufferers themselves.

Contents:

• A Baffling Phenomenon
• Summer Camp? Boot Camp? An Introduction to CPC
• The Painful Journey
• "Getting with the Program"
• Building and Resisting Community
• "Winners": CPC Converts
• Me/Not-Me: Self, Language, and Pain
• Conclusions: The Puzzles of Pain.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-261) and index.
• Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

• 9780812204735
• 0812204735

OCLC:

768080353

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.