Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Pain is a discursive construct of science and medicine. Through the discourses of biopower and technoscience pain is used to construct and maintain the social body. Biopower and technoscience are discursive practices that are enveloped within the disciplines of Western society. Specifically, the disciplines of education, science, and medicine use biopower and technoscience to normalize the body and construct binaries which create the abnormal. The cyborg is a discursive practice used to implode the binaries of the disciplines which maintain the social body. Through the implosion of binaries, the binary of mind/body is no longer plausible in the explanation of pain. Neuropathic chronic pain and phantom limb pain become cyborg discourses which operate to deconstruct the pedagogies of science and medicine.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation (open access)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
- Year dc:date.available
- 2004
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gruber, Dennis Michael
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- John Weaver
- Marla Morris
- J. C. Andersen
Subjects
dc:subject × 11Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd_legacy/411
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd_legacy-1578