Olejar Books

Pain is a complex phenomenon with physical, psychological, socio-cultural, and cultural components. The central aim of this edited volume is to offer a better understanding of the experience of pain including the important and often understated relevance of the public and private aspects of pain and injury on the formation of identities, beliefs about mobility, and cultural belonging in American society. This multidisciplinary edited volume will draw on the expertise of epidemiologic, clinical, genetic and psychosocial (behavioral) approaches to the study of pain, research from the fields of transportation and supportive mobility, ethnographic, cultural and narrative approaches to the study of pain, as well as insights from philosophy, ethics and public policy, to better understand and address the significance of chronic pain in American society.