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... suffering pain always has a historical dimension . When I suffer pain , I am aware that a question is being raised . The history of pain can best be studied by focusing on that question . No matter if the pain is my own experience or if ...
... suffering pain always has a historical dimension . When I suffer pain , I am aware that a question is being raised . The history of pain can best be studied by focusing on that question . No matter if the pain is my own experience or if ...
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... suffer from it ; the experience of pain is reduced to a discomfort with a clinical name . For an experience of pain to constitute suffering in the full sense , it must fit into a cultural framework.28 To 26 A. Soulairac , J. Cahn , and ...
... suffer from it ; the experience of pain is reduced to a discomfort with a clinical name . For an experience of pain to constitute suffering in the full sense , it must fit into a cultural framework.28 To 26 A. Soulairac , J. Cahn , and ...
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... suffering well , " but also the instructions on how to integrate this repertoire . The medicalization of pain , on the other hand , has fostered a hypertrophy of just one of these modes - management by technique — and reinforced the ...
... suffering well , " but also the instructions on how to integrate this repertoire . The medicalization of pain , on the other hand , has fostered a hypertrophy of just one of these modes - management by technique — and reinforced the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body Deborah Lupton No preview available - 1995 |