"Camp Pain"
Talking with Chronic Pain Patients

Based on fieldwork in a pain treatment center, "Camp Pain" focuses on patients' perspectives-on their experiences of pain and what these experiences mean to them.

While keeping her focus on patients' experiences, Jackson explores Western concepts of disease, health, mind, and body; assumptions about cause and effect; and notions of shame, guilt, and stigma. "Camp Pain" does not attempt to resolve the uncertainties and misperceptions associated with pain but rather aims at enhancing our understanding of the wider implications of chronic pain by focusing on the sufferers themselves.