Painscapes: Communicating Pain

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This book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds of relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies. Each chapter offers a unique window onto the notoriously difficult problem of how pain is defined and communicated. The contributors reimagine the value of images and photography, poetry, history, drama, stories and interviews, not as ‘better’ representations of the pain experience, but as devices to navigate the complexity of pain across different physical, social, and intersubjective domains. This innovative collection provides a new access point to the phenomenon of pain and the materialities, affects, structures and institutions that constitute it. This book will appeal to readers seeking to better understand pain’s complexity and the social and affective ecologies through which pain is known, communicated and lived. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Painscapes (EJ Gonzalez-Polledo)....Pages 1-23 ‘The Sad Language of Pain’: S. Weir Mitchell, the American Civil War, and Interpreting Physical Suffering (Lucy Bending)....Pages 25-40 An Essay on the Space Outside Pain Where the Poem Takes Place (Jude Rosen)....Pages 41-60 Act Like It Hurts: Questions of Role and Authenticity in the Communication of Chronic Pain (Sarah Goldingay)....Pages 61-81 Articulating Pain: Writing the Autoimmune Self (Alice Andrews)....Pages 83-105 Exhibiting Pain, Death and Grief: From the Art Gallery to the Image Shared Online (Montse Morcate)....Pages 107-127 Pain and the Internet: Transforming the Experience? (Nikki Newhouse, Helen Atherton, Sue Ziebland)....Pages 129-155 Photography and Mental Illness: Feeding or Combating the Stigma of Invisible Pain Online and Offline (Rebeca Pardo)....Pages 157-182 ADJOIN (Trish O’Shea, Mark Wilkinson, Jackie Jones)....Pages 183-204 Face2face: Sharing the Photograph Within Medical Pain Encounters—A Means of Democratisation (Deborah Padfield, Joanna M. Zakrzewska)....Pages 205-228 Painscapes and Method (Jen Tarr)....Pages 229-248 Back Matter ....Pages 249-254