Communicating Pain

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain.

Acknowledgments 1. The shirt of Nessos: an essay on the experience of writing about pain 2. Going nursing: an autobiographical prelude 3. At the end of the mind, the body: a memoir, 2003-2004 4. But at the end of the body, the mind: a memoir, 2004-2009 5.The vendor of happiness: an interview with French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1802-1876) 6.The consolator: an introduction to English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) 7. Observatory: a narrative poem set in Harriet Martineau's sick-room 8. An imago: a contemplation of Polish poet and intellectual, Aleksander Wat (1900 - 1967) 9. How does it hurt? An epilogue 10. White train: a narrative poem Appendix of images Notes Bibliography Index