The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Why read it

• You will understand why pain isolates a person and why others struggle to believe or share it
• You will see how torture and war exploit the fact that pain cannot be put into words
• You will learn how making things, from tools to stories, builds a shared world

Who it is for

• A caregiver trying to understand a patient's pain
• A clinician who hears pain described in vague words
• A writer interested in what words cannot carry

Contents

1. The Body in Pain
2. The Body in Pain
3. INTRODUCTION
4. PART ONE Unmaking
5. PART TWO Making

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