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Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) by Lous Heshusius; David B. Morris; Scott M. Fishman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an articulate middle-class female white patient thinks (with all that thinking entails) when her world is irreversibly altered by pain. She does not promise happy endings. Chronic pain is like that. From the rare intersection in this text between patient narrative and physician response, however, readers may construct a dialogue on pain in our time that cannot fail to bring plentiful opportunities for personal insight and professional enlightenment."—from the Foreword by David B. MorrisChronic pain, which affects 70 million people in the United States alone—more than diabetes, cancer, and heart disease combined—is a major public health issue that remains poorly understood both within the health care system and by those closest to the people it afflicts. This book examines the experience of pain in ways that could significantly improve how patients and practitioners deal with pain. It is the first volume of a new collection of titles within the acclaimed Culture and Politics of Health Care Work series called How Patients Think, intended t

Who reads Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)?

Author

Lous Heshusius; David B. Morris; Scott M. Fishman

Publisher

ILR Press/Cornell University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801458781

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Medical, Lifestyle

Updated

2026-03-24