ArticleMedical anthropology quarterly2015
Works of Illness and the Challenges of Social Risk and the Specter of Pain in the Lived Experience of TMD.
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- A patient journey map based on the experience of temporomandibular disorders patients: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- A Meta-Synthesis of the Experience of Chronic Temporomandibular Disorder Patients Within Health Care ServicesJournal of oral & facial pain and headache · 2023Pooled it
- Ways of Hoping: Navigating the Paradox of Hope and Despair in Chronic Pain.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2016Trial
- A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Sensory Neuron-TRPV4 Modulates Temporomandibular Disorder Pain Via CGRP in Mice.The journal of pain · 2023Review
- Chronic pain experience and health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: qualitative findings from the chronic pain & COVID-19 pan-Canadian study.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Ion Channels in Orofacial Pain.Molecular neurobiology · 2021Review
- Broadening measures of success: results of a behavioral health translational research training program.Implementation science : IS · 2017Article
- Social risk, stigma and space: key concepts for understanding HIV vulnerability among black men who have sex with men in New York City.Culture, health & sexuality · 2017Article
- "Just Advil": Harm reduction and identity construction in the consumption of over-the-counter medication for chronic pain.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Article
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Abstract
Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) represent a particular form of chronic pain that, while not outwardly debilitating, profoundly impacts interactions as fundamental to human existence as smiling, laughing, speaking, eating, and intimacy. Our analysis, informed by an expanded "works of illness" assessment, draws attention to work surrounding social and physical risk. We refer to these as the work of stoicism and the work of vigilance and identify double binds created in contexts that call for both. Conflicting authorial stances in informants' narratives are shown to be essential in maintaining a positive identity in the face of illness. While earlier ethnographic studies report TMD sufferers' experience of stigma and search for diagnosis and legitimacy, we present a group of individuals who have accepted diagnosis at face value and soldier through pain as a fundamental aspect of their identity.
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