Over the course of March 2015 we will be publishing a collection of insights that situate pain as an element of study and lived experience in the medical humanities. The special edition of pain will be featured here on our site, and we very much hope that it will attract commentary and responses from our diverse and peer-led community: you.
We are eager to receive contributions that will generate dialogue on pain from academic, creative and experiential perspectives.
Contributions could explore representations of pain and the lived experience of pain within and across the arts; write-ups of past presentations or exhibitions; the views of stakeholder or charitable organisations; providers of care; and practitioners or policy-makers to offer a few suggestions.
This will add to forthcoming reviews of recent academic publications, including ‘The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers’ by Joanne Bourke (OUP, 2014) and ‘Pain: A Political History’ by Keith Wailoo (John Hopkins University Press, 2014). Moreover, proceedings of the CMH and Wolfson Post-Graduate & Early Career Research Network’s meeting on “Dimensions of Pain” convened by Dr Luna Dolezal will also be shared.
Please contact our reviews editor with a brief summary of your biography and proposed contribution.
We look forward to receiving your contributions and anticipate that the unfolding discussion will offer a fresh understanding of what pain means and what might be missing in its academic study.