TMD Revisited: Appreciating the Work of Illness, the Balancing of Risks, and the Construction of Moral Identity Involved in Dealing with Chronic Pain

Temporomandibular Disorder(s) (TMD), a common cause of chronic pain affecting the face and jaw, profoundly impacts interactions as fundamental to human existence as smiling, laughing, speaking, eating, and intimacy. Since landmark anthropological research on TMD in the 1990s, considerable changes ha...

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Main Author: Eaves, Emery Rose
Other Authors: Nichter, Mark
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556810