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- Title
Empfindliche Körper. Kopfschmerzpraktiken zwischen Alltag und Medizin.
- Authors
Lübcke, Stefanie
- Abstract
The article "Sensitive Bodies. Headache Practices between Everyday Life and Medicine" examines the effects of headaches in relation to social background, biography, medical treatments, gender, and age. The author Stefan Dreßke conducts interviews with various informants, including pain clinic patients, students, and family members. He creates a social map of headaches based on the life stories of the respondents. Dreßke shows how processes of modernization are connected to the pathologization of pain in everyday life and medicine. He also examines the relationships between the understanding of sensitivity, dealing with pain, and the occupational situation of the respondents. The text deals with the effects of postmodern society on the perception of pain and the representation of pain in individuals. It is pointed out that in a society characterized by unlimited freedoms, some people are overwhelmed and seek refuge in illness. Furthermore, it is shown that the norms of optimization and self-realization can lead to processes of pathologization in certain social milieus. Stefan Dreßke's investigation combines ideas from Ulrich Beck and Gerhard Schulze with the results of his study on the perception of pain and demonstrates the effects that the demands of postmodernity can have on the body and the self of individuals.
- Subjects
BECK, Ulrich, 1944-2015; PAIN perception; PAIN clinics; SOCIAL background; THERAPEUTICS; SELF-realization; OCCUPATIONAL prestige
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung (ZQF), 2022, Vol 23, Issue 2, p294
- ISSN
2196-2138
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3224/zqf.v23i2.11