The Fashion System or Chronic Pain and the Family

The Fashion System

Author: Roland Barthes

In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don't calculate; if clothing's producers and consumers had the same consciousness, clothing would be bought (and produced) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation."

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Chronic Pain and the Family: A New Guide (Family Health Guides Series)

Author: Julie K Silver

Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in the United States, affecting as many as 48 million people in this country alone. It can demoralize and depress both patient and family, especially when there is no effective pain control and no hope for relief. Improperly managed, chronic pain can lead to substance abuse (usually painkillers) and to acute psychological and emotional distress. Pain begets stress and stress begets pain in a wretched downward spiral.

Silver reviews the causes and characteristics of chronic pain and explores its impact on individual family relationships and on the extended family, covering such issues as employment, parenting, childbearing and inheritance, and emotional health. Silver treats aspects of chronic pain not covered in a typical office visit: how men and women differ in their experience of chronic pain, the effect of chronic pain on a toddler's behavior or an older child's performance in school, the risks of dependence on and addiction to pain medications, and practical ways for relatives beyond the immediate family circle to offer help and support to the person in pain.

Table of Contents:

1	What is chronic pain?	1
2	Effect on the couple	20
3	Intimacy and sexual activity	35
4	Work issues	45
5	Childbearing and inheritance	57
6	Growing up with a parent in pain	64
7	Chronic pain in children	75
8	The extended family	86
9	Emotional changes and depression	95
10	Medication dependence and addiction	104
11	Diagnosing chronic pain conditions	118
12	Traditional treatment options	124
13	Complementary and alternative medicine	139