Narrative, pain, and suffering
By: Martha Stoddard Homes and Tod Chambers, issue editors
Series: Literature and medicine -- v. 24, no. 1; Literature and medicine -- v. 24, no. 1.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Chronic pain; Pain; Psychological aspects; Narration (Rhetoric); Narrative therapy; Medicine in Literature; Narration
Notes: "Spring 2005."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editors' preface: On conveying pain/on conferring form  -- Rita Charon and Maura Spiegel; title: Remembering Susan Sontag  -- Aaron Manson, Mindy Thompson Fullilove /; title: The other side of silence: Levinas, medicine, and literature  -- Craig A. Irvine; title: Paradigms' cost: representing vulnerable subjects  -- G. Thomas Couser; title: "You can kill, but you cannot bring to life": aesthetic education and the instrumentalization of pain in Schiller and Holderlin  -- John B. Lyon; title: Narrative pain and the moral sense: toward an ethics of suffering in the long eighteenth century  -- William H. Wandless; title: When life writing becomes death writing: the journal of Emily Shore  -- Barbara T. Gates; title: Making poetry of pain: the headache poems of Jane Cave Winscom  -- A. Elizabeth McKim; title: "The Blameless physician": narrative and pain, Sassoon and Rivers  -- Robert Hemmings; title: Afterword: Thinking through pain -- Martha Stoddard Holmes and Tod Chambers.