"When Pain Strikes "was first published in 1998. Minnesota
Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable
books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions.
When pain strikes, do you raid the medicine cabinet? Read a
self-help manual? Hit the roof? How we in North America respond to
pain-what we think about it, what we say, and what we do-is the
subject of this collection of writings and images.
The book's five sections contain a myriad of complex reactions
to the occurrence of pain: "Measure It" discusses biomedical
responses; "Scream and Yell" explores therapeutic solutions; "Cut
It Open" takes up surgical interventions; "Take a Pill" looks at
pharmacology; and "Intensify It" examines positions that embrace
pain. Each section comprises original artwork, scholarly analyses,
poetic and literary texts, and discussions by activists. Hailing
from the university, the gallery, and the community organization,
the authors--as TV watchers, recreational drug users, recipients of
medical attention, caregivers, midwives, or the HIV
positive--inhabit and reconfigure our contemporary painscape,
offering a new approach to the puzzle of pain.
Contributors: Charles R. Acland; Barbara McGill Balfour;
Isabelle Brabant; Stephen Busby; Millie Chen; Michael Fernandes;
Bob Flanagan; Thyrza Nichols Goodeve; Marie-Paule Macdonald; Ronald
Melzack; Margaret Morse; Celeste Olalquiaga; John O'Neill; Gerard
Pas; Elsie Petch; D. L. Pughe; Julia Scher; Cathy Sisler; Johanne
Sloan; Jana Sterbak; Fred Tomaselli; Patrick D. Wall; Theodore Wan;
Gregory Whitehead; Fred Wilson.
"When Pain Strikes "is published in collaboration with the Banff
Centre for the Arts.
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