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Pain displays as embodied activity in medical interaction

  • Ann Weatherall
    ,
  • Jessica La
  • Victoria University of Wellington
    ,
  • King's College London
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Abstract

In this chapter we develop a psychological approach to pain as an embodied activity in interaction based on grounded analyses of how pain as a sensorial experience is brought out as an objective matter in medical consultations. Drawing upon discursive psychology (DP) and multimodal conversation analysis, we examine the verbal and embodied resources that accomplish pain, and their organisation with respect to turn and sequence. We demonstrate how pain as a sensorial experience is a practical and joint accomplishment embedded in the ongoing social interaction. Our chapter speaks to theoretical issues within DP, demonstrating the value a praxeological and multimodal approach can have for tackling issues of embodiment, which is of central importance to understanding issues of human sociality.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 197-220

Publication milestones

  • Published - 13/02/2021

Publication status

Published - 13/02/2021

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., United States, United Kingdom

Publication series

  • Publication series name: Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology

ISBN (Print)

9783030537081

ISBN (Electronic)

9783030537098

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625766

Host publication title

Discursive psychology and embodiment: beyond subject-object binaries

Host publication editors

  • Sally Wiggins
  • Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal

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