The volume started with the individual’s plight, the feeling of ‘loss of control’, and narrativeas an empowering antidote that caused coherence. This in turn gave rise to more extendedreflections on efficacy, both medical and political. By focusing on pain in essays emphasizingits trans-individuality, the potential of pain as a medium that causes coalescence within agroup was highlighted. Such visceral relationality entangled in social, economic and politicalconflict is world-shattering, yet it contains the potential for transformation beyond theafflicted themselves.
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