Constructing pain : historical, psychological and critical perspectives / Robert Kugelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kugelmann, Robert, 1948- author.

Series:

Critical approaches to health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain--History.

Pain.

Pain--Physiological aspects.

Pain--Psychological aspects.

Pain--history.

Pain--physiopathology.

Pain--psychology.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Pain--history.

Pain--physiopathology.

Pain--psychology.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 155 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Everyone experiences pain, whether it's emotional or physical, chronic or acute. Pain is part of what it means to be human, and so an understanding of how we relate to it as individuals - as well as cultures and societies - is fundamental to who we are. In this important new book, the first in Roufledge's new Critical Approaches to Health series, Robert Kugelmann provides an accessible and insightful overview of how the concept of pain has been understood historically, psychologically, and anthropologically. Charting changes in how, after the development of modern painkillers, pain became a problem that could be solved, the book articulates how the possibilities for living with pain have changed over the last two hundred years. Incorporating research conducted by the author himself, the book provides both a holistic conception of pain and an understanding of what it means to people experiencing it today. Including critical reflections in each chapter, Constructing Pain offers a comprehensive and enlightening treatment of an important issue to us all and will be fascinating reading for students and researchers within health psychology, health care, and nursing. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Constructing modern pain: "the conquest of pain"

Constructing real pain

Constructing pain nondualistically

Social representations and discourses of chronic pain

Constructing psychological pain

Phenomenologies of pain

Pain as a sign

Moral pain and knowledge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138841208

113884120X

9781138841222

1138841226

OCLC:

958585727