Giving an account of one's pain in the anthropological interview

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-131

  Buchbinder, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Complaint; Illness narrative; Medical institutions; Narrative positioning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NARRATION; PAIN;

EID: 75749092548     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-009-9162-2     Document Type: Article

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