TY - BOOK AU - Käll,Lisa Folkmarson TI - Dimensions of pain: humanities and social science perspectives T2 - Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness SN - 0415635756 AV - RB127 .D56 2013 U1 - 616.0472 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York PB - Routledge KW - Pain KW - Physiological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Pain perception KW - Labor Pain KW - psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : dimensions of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Käll -- When language runs dry : pain, the imagination, and metaphor / David Biro -- Intercorporeality and the sharability of pain / Lisa Folkmarson Käll -- On the borderlands : chronic pain as crisis of identity / Anna Gotlib -- Pain and sex(uality) among women suffering from vulvar pain / Renita Sörensdotter -- The Cartesian mind in the abused body : dissociation and the mind-body dualism / Peg O'Connor -- Between health and illness : positive pain and world-formation / Sheena Hyland -- Doing pain 'right' : the pleasures of pain in aerial dance / Jillian Deri and Wendy Mendes -- The good and normal pain : midwives' perception of pain in childbirth / Jenny Gleisner -- Birth work : suffering rituals in late modernity. A case study from a Swedish birth-clinic / Diana Mulinari -- Child, birth : an aesthetic / Cressida J. Heyes N2 - This book explores the lived experience of pain, and questions of identity and pain, from a range of different disciplinary perspectives within the humanities and social sciences. Discussing the acuity and temporality of pain, its isolating impact, the embodied expression of pain, pain and sexuality, gender and ethnicity, it also includes a cluster of three chapters discusses the phenomenon and experience of labour pains. This book revitalizes the study of pain, offering productive ways of carefully thinking through its different aspects and exploring the positive and enriching side of world-forming pain as well as its limiting aspects. It will be of interest to academics and students interested in pain from a range of backgrounds, including philosophy, sociology, nursing, midwifery, medicine and gender studies ER -