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Angst in London
Title: Angst in London
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 761 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Angst in London
SUMMARY
The understanding of experienced pain has recently moved from the biological to the metaphorical. Detailed interviews with
twelve Turkish and Kurdish patients in London who had been unsuccessfully investigated medically for chronic pain showed that
their understanding reflected local, typically humoural, conceptions of self and body. However there was little to suggest
interpretation of the illness as a more specific and grounded idiom for social or political experience. It is suggested that the current
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institution, capitalism, an argument which would presumably have been unintelligible to the early Protestants themselves.) And if
the latter, what are the limits of plausibility within a particular discipline? To interpret an illness as representative of its culture in the
second sense presumably requires both some temporal relationship of social events or structure to illness, as well as some sort of
formal and logical similarity between illness and a particular individual experience (Littlewood, 1997)
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