The contemporary making and unmaking of Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain

Editor’s introduction. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare: The (politics of) the illness experience

“…An ethnographic study of opioid use disorder in rural Maine: The problem of pain, 10 is an examination of patient experiences with suffering. 11,12 This suffering is sensate, in the sinews of the body, but it is also affective the matter of medical stigma, and the biopolitics of criminalization of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Most physicians do not understand chronic pain past addiction to opioids, and the prescription of suboxone to treat both addiction and pain.…”

‘I do not want to pass’: embodiment, metaphor, and world-making in Patrick Staff’s Weed Killer

“… 2. Scarry’s ‘unmaking’ thesis has come under fire for its simplicity and its ahistoricity, as well as for the somewhat troubling modernist notion implicit in her work which locates the body outside of language, and the subject as existing prior to language. For a literature review of the wide-ranging influences of and critiques of Scarry’s influence, see Van Ommen et al (2017). …”