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Pain, dying, loss – bleak topics for most of us. And yet, with sharp and delicate attentiveness, Wood shows how we might adventure with ‘total pain’, as Cicely Saunders did, as a pathway back to our inescapable vulnerability and interdependence. The value of bearing witness to suffering, the extending of personhood beyond the individual, the recognition of pain in its many forms, outreach the deathbed. These are lessons that speak to the weight of genocidal and environmental catastrophes as much as to loving accompaniment as the most radical form of care. -- Yasmin Gunaratnam, King’s College London As end-of-life care attracts increasing scrutiny, this carefully researched monograph, incorporating innovative scholarship in the medical/health humanities, offers an extensive, engaging and necessary re-appraisal of the concept of ‘total pain’. -- Steven Wilson, Queen’s University Belfast

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Joe Wood is currently an Affiliate Researcher at King's College London. He has worked in the English department at King's and as part of the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group at the University of Glasgow. His work on Cicely Saunders and narrative at the end of life has led to collaborative work with St Christopher's Hospice and the Royal College of Nursing.

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