Painscapes

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Painscapes EJ Gonzalez-Polledo.- 2. 'The sad language of pain': S. Weir Mitchell, the American Civil War, and interpreting physical suffering Lucy Bending.- 3. An Essay on the Space Outside Pain where the Poem Takes Place Jude Rosen.- 4. Act like it hurts: questions of role and authenticity in the communication of chronic pain Sarah Goldingay.- 5. Articulating Pain. Writing the Autoimmune Self Alice Andrews.- 6. Exhibiting pain, death and grief: from the art gallery to the image shared onlineMontse Morcate.- 7. Pain and the Internet: Transforming the experience? - Nikki Newhouse, Helen Atherton, Sue Ziebland.- 8. Photography and mental illness: Feeding or combating the stigma of invisible pain online and offline Rebeca Pardo.- 9. ADJOIN Trish O'Shea, Mark Wilkinson and Jackie Jones.- 10. Face2face: sharing the photograph within medical pain encounters; a means of democratization D eborah Padfield and Joanna M. Zakrzewska.- 11. Painscapes and Method Jen Tarr.<p