"Camp Pain": Talking with Chronic Pain Patients

Jean E. Jackson

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2000

"Camp Pain"

Talking with Chronic Pain Patients

Jean E. Jackson

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204735

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Contents

About this book

Based on fieldwork in a pain treatment center, "Camp Pain" focuses on patients' perspectives—on their experiences of pain and what these experiences mean to them.

Author / Editor information

Jean E. Jackson is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia.

Reviews

"An unusual and fascinating book."—Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Chapter 1. A Baffling Phenomenon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Summer Camp? Boot Camp? An Introduction to CPC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 3. The Painful Journey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Chapter 4. "Getting with the Program" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter 5. Building and Resisting Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 6. "Winners": CPC Converts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 7. Me/Not-Me: Self, Language, and Pain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 8. Conclusions: The Puzzles of Pain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Coda: A Note on Approach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Appendix 1: CPC Patients and Staff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Appendix 2: Interview Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Keywords: Anthropology; Medicine; Folklore; Linguistics; Health; Caregiving

eBook

Published: June 7, 2011
ISBN: 9780812204735