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Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. This book offers a perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways.

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"Buchbinder's ethnography not only contributes substantially to our understanding of the social uses of explanations, it also exposes how the cultural meaning of these explanations depends on the language that is used and the social and cultural context in which it is delivered." Somatosphere

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments List of Acronyms and Initialisms Transcription Conventions Introduction 1. The Bottom of the Funnel 2. The Smart Clinic 3. Sticky Brains 4. Treating the Family 5. Locating Pain in Societal Stress Conclusion Notes References Index

All in Your Head

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 5 June 2015
      ISBN-13 9780520285224
      978-0520285224
      ISBN-10 0520285220
      Also in:
      Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. This book offers a perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways.

      Trade Review
      "Buchbinder's ethnography not only contributes substantially to our understanding of the social uses of explanations, it also exposes how the cultural meaning of these explanations depends on the language that is used and the social and cultural context in which it is delivered." Somatosphere

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments List of Acronyms and Initialisms Transcription Conventions Introduction 1. The Bottom of the Funnel 2. The Smart Clinic 3. Sticky Brains 4. Treating the Family 5. Locating Pain in Societal Stress Conclusion Notes References Index

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