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Description of  Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering through Language, Literature and Creative Writing (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)

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 Read more