ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pain Scale, Pain Management, Invisibility
21 Apr 2016
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Meanings of pain: history and environment shape meanings of pain, local environments generate or exacerbate feelings of hopelessness, chronic pain is worsened by, exact cause of chronic pain remains poorly understood, sex and gender, ethnicity. Inability to finish school, fear of getting diseases, and having a low paying job make. Rudolph"s pain worse: maximal levels of stress and anxiety cause pain to worsen. More pain caused after she had kids and had an office job. Has gone through a lot of treatments giving in to having a surgery. Taken an emotional toll on the family. Nothing i can do to help her : hard to balance mom and homework and school, etc. Toll on the individual: hard to mask the pain people think that you"re well enough to do something on your own, but they don"t know that you"re in pain.
