1st Edition
Dimensions of Pain Humanities and Social Science Perspectives
1. Introduction: Dimensions of Pain Lisa Folkmarson Käll 2. When Language Runs Dry: Pain, the Imagination, and Metaphor David Biro 3. Intercorporeality and the Sharability of Pain Lisa Folkmarson Käll 4. On the Borderlands: Chronic Pain as Crisis of Identity Anna Gotlib 5. Pain and Sex(uality) among Women Suffering from Vulvar Pain Renita Sörensdotter 6. The Cartesian Mind in the Abused Body: Dissociation and the Mind Body Dualism Peg O’Connor 7. Between Health and Illness: Positive Pain and World-formation Sheena Hyland 8. Doing Pain ‘Right:’ The Pleasures of Pain in Aerial Dance Jillian Deri and Wendy Mendes 9. The Good and Normal Pain: Midwives’ Perception of Pain in Childbirth Jenny Gleisner 10. Birth Work: Suffering Rituals in Late Modernity. A Case Study from a Swedish Birth-Clinic Diana Mulinari 11. Child, Birth: An Aesthetic Cressida J. Heyes
Biography
Lisa Folkmarson Käll is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University and Research Associate of Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Centre for Dementia Research, Linköping University, Sweden.
