All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain play--and freedom

play--and freedom

She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does

Was it an international gang of thieves

who died in her mother's arms just a few hours after she was born

social institutions

All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain play--and freedomAlthough pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another's internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head