TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Montalk,Stephanie
TI  - Communicating pain: exploring suffering through language, literature and creative writing 
T2  - Routledge advances in the medical humanities
SN  - 9780429465451
AV  - P37.5.D37 
U1  - 410.19 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Pain
KW  - Lexicology
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
KW  - POETRY / General
N2  - Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. Coupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429465451
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -