Stigma, Liminality, and Chronic Pain: Mind-Body Borderlands
In this article, I employ the concept of "liminality" to answer the question, why is pain, something invisible and experienced by everyone, so often stigmatizing in its chronic form? Various authors' work on liminality argues that "betwixt and between," ambiguous beings are...
| Veröffentlicht in: | American Ethnologist. - Wiley Subscription Services, 1974. - 32(2005), 3, Seite 332-353 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | American Ethnologist |
| Schlagworte: | Chronic Pain Liminality Mind-Body Dualism Stigma Medical Anthropology |
| Zusammenfassung: | In this article, I employ the concept of "liminality" to answer the question, why is pain, something invisible and experienced by everyone, so often stigmatizing in its chronic form? Various authors' work on liminality argues that "betwixt and between," ambiguous beings are seen by those around them to threaten prevailing definitions of the social order. I show that certain features of chronic pain result in the perception of sufferers as transgressing the categorical divisions between mind and body and as confounding the codes of morality surrounding sickness and health, turning them into liminal creatures whose uncertain ontological status provokes stigmatizing reactions in others. |
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| ISSN: | 15481425 |