Tracing families' pathways through persistent pain and its care
Ethnographic research with children living with persistent pain, their families and clinicians treating them, to analyze:
– how prolonged pain affects the everyday lives of families living in Finland and how they maintain hope amid suffering
– how meanings and management of pain is negotiated in clinical encounters
– how gender, race and class, and perceptions of them, shape trajectories of pain and its care.
The research is funded and supported by
