ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Narrative, Pain Scale, Xerostomia

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 3HI3
• Professor: Priscilla Medeiros

Document Summary

Anthropology has an approach that is meant to conceptualize the experience of pain. Experiences of pain are very personal and subjective. We tend to draw from the sciences and think of pain as biological. Generally, think of pain as an outward manifestation. Many forms of healing or diagnosis also involve some form of pain. Pain is an inseparable part of everyday life: biopsy or injection, there is also social, psychological, and cultural pain happening at this time as well. Pain is most likely the most common feeling in a clinical setting. The experience of pain doesn"t only affect the person who is directly feeling the pain, but it affects the people around them as well. Poses problems for sufferer and for those around them. Leads to frustration and distrust in practitioners who are unable to explain or effectively treat their illnesses: can cause people to end up feeling hopeless. Often intimately linked to social and psychological problems o.