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...

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Veröffentlicht in:American Ethnologist. - Wiley Subscription Services, 1974. - 32(2005), 3, Seite 332-353
1. Verfasser: Jackson, Jean E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2005
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:American Ethnologist
Schlagworte:Chronic Pain Liminality Mind-Body Dualism Stigma Medical Anthropology