PAINSCAPES

This book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds o f relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies. Each chapter offers a unique window onto the notoriously difficult problem of how pain is defined and communicated. The contributors reimagine the value of images and photograph y, poetry, history, drama, stories and interviews, not as better representations of the pain experience, but as devices to navigat e the compl...[Read more]