Culture, Ageing and the Construction of Pain
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Cultural Construction of Ageing
2.1. Thinking about ‘Culture’
2.2. Culture and the Construction of Ageing
2.3. Constructing Age Stages
2.4. The Social Determinants of Inequality in Ageing
3. Ageing and Pain
3.1. Ageing, Culture and Pain
3.2. Culture and Different Idioms of Distress
3.2.1. Sinking Heart
3.2.2. Personal and Social Loss
3.2.3. Somatisation
3.3. Culture Bound Syndromes/Cultural Concepts of Distress
3.4. Inter-Subjectivity in the Clinical Encounter
4. Stoicism and Coping with Pain
4.1. Generational Stoicism
4.2. Stoicism and the Professional Control of Pain
4.3. Religion, Spirituality and Stoicism
4.4. Stoicism, Culture and Professional Values
5. Critiquing Cultural Perspectives on Ageing and Pain
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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