When pain strikes / Bill Burns, Cathy Busby, and Kim Sawchuk, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Letter from the Far Territories -- Some Notes on the Future of Pain -- The McGill Pain Questionnaires -- Two Cartographies of AIDS: The (In)describable Pain of HIV/AIDS -- it may be -- Reflections on Pain in Childbirth -- Demon Girl and Hungry Ghost -- Dream Memory of the Brace/Red-Blue Wheelchair -- backwards -- We Need to Scream to Talk: An Interview with Kecia Larkin -- About Face II -- The Lure of Roseanne's Autopathography and Survivor Identity -- House of Pain: A Relationship -- Wounded States: Sovereignty, Separation, and the Quebec Referendum -- Bridine Scrub for General Surgery -- Spectacles of Virtuous Pain -- Bound by Everyday Necessities I and II -- Display Wounds: Ruminations of a Vulnerologist -- Senile Uterus / Macerated Liver (from Dermatographia, 1992) -- Taking Control: How I Learned to Live with AIDS -- Pain Journal -- Analgesia -- Reclaiming Responsibility: Seniors, Medication, and Health Promotion in South Riverdale -- Self-Portrait -- Take Two: Post-Fordist Discourses of the Corporate and Corporeal -- Reach for the Pain -- You sober people -- Smarting Flesh: Pain and the Posthuman -- Pain Practices and the Reconfiguration of Physical Experience -- American Fibroids -- Contributors -- Permissions -- Index.

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