{"product_id":"reading-literature-and-chronic-pain-hardcover","title":"Reading Literature and Chronic Pain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJosie Billington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanities in addressing urgent questions that medical science alone cannot resolve.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe primary purpose of this book is twofold. First, to demonstrate empirically - against a conceptual background drawn from multiple disciplines and knowledge bases (historical, medical, neurobiological, psychological, socio\/anthropological) - how an apparently 'soft' intervention such as literary reading can effectively combat symptoms of a condition as intractable as chronic pain. Second, to explore what this evidence tells us about pain (as a lived experience as well as a condition in urgent need of new treatment options) and about literature and the reading of fiction and poetry as therapeutic influences in contemporary health and healthcare, most particularly in alleviating the (often severe) mental health difficulties with which chronic pain is almost universally associated.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBased on unique empirical research with people who are living with chronic pain, this book is the first of its kind to demonstrate the value of literature and literary reading both as a discourse for understanding and 'finding' pain and as an intervention in its treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosie Billington\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has edited and published extensively on Victorian women's fiction and poetry including 21st Century Oxford Authors: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eScenes of Clerical Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003ci\u003eWives and Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, and Margaret Oliphant's \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies Lindores\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also led multiple inter-disciplinary studies on the value of literary reading for health. Her publications in this field include \u003ci\u003eIs Literature Healthy? \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford University Press, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eReading and Mental Health \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52241686200594,"sku":"9781350270213","price":162.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/MpzhqtwEgO9781350270213.webp?v=1777904206","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/reading-literature-and-chronic-pain-hardcover","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}