Disciplining Pain: Masculinity and Ideologies of Repair in a Colombian Military Hospital

Body and Society 21 (3):91-114 (2015)
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Colombia, a country at civil war for over 50 years, has one of the highest rates of landmine injury in the world. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted at the Amputation and Rehabilitation Unit of Bogota’s Central Military Hospital. Through an ethnographic description of surgical amputation and rehabilitation, I examine medical understandings of vitality and masculinity in respect to the senses – primarily that of pain in the act of amputation.

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World.Elaine Scarry - 1985 - New York: Oxford University Press USA.
Reparation and the Gift.Michele Stephen - 2000 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 28 (2):119-146.

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