Reading Literature and Chronic Pain, 9781350270251
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Can reading heal chronic pain where medicine falls short?
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Reading Literature and Chronic Pain

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    9 July 2025

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Summary

Finding Solace in Stories: Literature and the Lived Experience of Chronic Pain

This 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.

The primary purpose of this book is twofold:

  • First, to demonstrate empirically – against a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350270251
ISBN-10:1350270253
Author:Dr Josie Billington
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:9 July 2025
Weight:400g
Dimensions:232mm x 154mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

This is an accomplished book on an important and pressing topic, advancing a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain. It also attests to the importance of the medical humanities in addressing urgent questions that medical science alone cannot resolve. – Ulrika Maude, Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science, University of Bristol, UKAn exciting new contemplative-style approach to treating chronic pain—and much more. This book is rooted in empirical research and breaks new ground in areas of embodiment and group development, exploring the power of reading great literature aloud—both fiction and poetry—to bring readers together to a place of healing. – Donald McCown, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Director of the Center for Contemplative Studies, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA

About The Author

Dr Josie Billington

Josie Billington 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 Scenes of Clerical Life, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters, and Margaret Oliphant’s The Ladies Lindores. She has also led multiple inter-disciplinary studies on the value of literary reading for health. Her publications in this field include Is Literature Healthy? (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Reading and Mental Health (Palgrave, 2019).

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