Making Sense of Pain: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Jane Fernandez
ISBN: 978-1-84888-36-8
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Contents
Introduction
Jane Fernandez
Section 1: Making Sense of Pain: Breaking the Mould
The Ambiguity of Pain
Sascha Benjamin Fink
Who is Able to Feel Pain? A Cartesian Attack on the Bête-Machine
Anik Waldow
The Mind/Body Problem in Contemporary Healthcare
Gillian Bendelow
An Uncertain Anodyne: Making Sense of Pain through Mesmerism in the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Todd
Journeys with Chronic Pain: Acquiring Stigma along the Way
Amanda Nielsen
Connecting Pain and Drug Use in GLBTQ Communities
Ian Flaherty
The Trajectory of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in Six Patients: A Roller Coaster Ride
Ruth Ellen Dubin
Section 2: Making Sense of Pain: Liminality of Spaces
The Clinical Conversation about Pain: Tensions between the Lived Experience and the Biomedical Model
Milton Cohen & John Quintner
Inflicting Pain
Hildur Kalman & Naomi Scheman
The Audiences of Pain: The Indonesian Audiences’ Response to Human Rights Documentaries
Kurniawan Saputro
Communication with Emotions: Use of Emotional Intelligence as Pain Relief
Yavuz Tuna
Pain and Personal Experiences of Cancer: A Complex Intersection
Heather McKenzie
Revelational Indicators: A Framework for Analysing Pain
Shona Hill
How to Listen to Chronic Pain Narratives
Mary Buchinger Bodwell
Section 3: Narrative Textuality and Revolt: Speaking the Body of Pain
Eros and Thanatos: The Murderous Struggle of Pain and Desire in Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Triumph of Death and in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
Angela Tumini
Gravity’s Rainbow: The Baroque Folds and Contanus Sese Conservandi in Tarsem Singh’s The Fall
Yen-Chen Chuang
Pain and the Performing Musician: The Interplay of Culture, Cancer and Identity
Meghan Neaton, Jean Giebenhain, Sarah Schmalenberger, Lisa Starr & Charles Gessert
Dancing in Other’s Shoes: Between Pain and Pleasure
Daria Radchenko
The Erotics of Pain: BDSM Femslash Fan Fiction
Malin Isaksson
The (Swedish) Zombia and the Welfare State: Politics and Emotion in John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Handling the Undead
Katarina Gregersdotter
Post-Independence Malaysian Short Stories: A Depiction of Racially Inflicted Pain
Nor Hashimah Isa
Painstaking Pain: Alice McDermott’s Child of My Heart
Hoda Elsayed Khallaf
The Discourse of Cutting: A Study of Visual Representations of Self-Injury on the Internet
Hans T. Sternudd
Shooting Pains: Addressing Illness-Related Pain through Video Autobiography
Broderick Fox
Negotiating Pain: Beyond Nostos to Co-Presence in Flanagan’s The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Jane Fernandez
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