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Encountering: Pain Hearing, seeing, speaking

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Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking, edited by Deborah Padfield and Joanna M. Zakrzewska, explores the complex experience of persistent pain and the challenges involved in communicating pain between patients and healthcare professionals. The book brings together perspectives from medicine, science, the arts, humanities, and the personal experiences of people living with pain to develop a broader understanding of pain and its meanings. Particular attention is given to the use of visual images, photography, gesture, testimony, and other forms of non-verbal communication as tools for expressing experiences that may be difficult to articulate through language alone. Through interdisciplinary research and patient-centered perspectives, the book examines ways of improving clinician–patient communication and understanding the physical, emotional, social, and cultural dimensions of pain. Overall, it provides insights into persistent pain and proposes creative and communicative approaches that may contribute to more empathetic healthcare practices and future research.

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Series Title

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Call Number

616.0472 PAD e

Publisher

London : UCL Press., 2021

Collation

E-book

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781787352636

Classification

616.0472

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

Cetakan pertama, 2021

Subject(s)

Pain Management
Medical Humanities

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Statement of Responsibility

Penulis, Deborah Padfield dan Joanna M. Zakrzewska

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