All in your head : making sense of pediatric pain / Mara Buchbinder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchbinder, Mara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain in children.

Pain in children--Social aspects.

Pain--Social aspects.

Pain.

Pain clinics--United States.

Pain clinics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful attention to the language of pain--including narratives, conversations, models, and metaphors--and detailed analysis of how young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others, her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of it is profoundly social"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The bottom of the funnel

The smart clinic

Sticky brains

Treating the family

Locating pain in societal stress.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520285224

0520285220

OCLC:

908192315