ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Depth Psychology, Sick Role, Unearth
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Liminality - 2 ways of thinking: betwixt and between 2 positions (turner/ van gennep, not a caterpillar but not a butterfly, matter out of place (douglas/ durkheim) Liminal objects, liminal states challenge dualistic classification systems. Subjective account of pain (patient) vs. objective diagnosis/prognosis (doctor) An aversive feeling experienced in the body that cannot be measured directly . Pain is that experience we associate with actual or potential tissue damage. It is unquestionably a sensation in a part or parts of the body, but it is also always unpleasant and therefore also an emotional experience . **note: actual or potential tissue damage = physical basis** Definition says pain most often has a proximate physical cause : actual/potential tissues damage them, emotional experience. Assessing pain: somatic pain, visceral pain, neuropathic pain: pain arising from damage to the damage-reporting system - nervous system. Nociceptive pain: pain arising from tissue damage.
