@article{ref1,
title="Suffering child: an embodiment of war and its aftermath in post-Sandinista Nicaragua",
journal="Medical anthropology quarterly",
year="1998",
author="Quesada, J.",
volume="12",
number="1",
pages="51-73",
abstract="This article considers how the ripple effects of war and its aftermath are embodied and lived even after being mediated by time, space, and social status. Through a case study of a Nicaraguan boy and his natal family, I argue that the legacy of war, structural violence, and endemic poverty are chronic and lingering and emerge from internationally and locally produced traumatogenic social relations. I use a phenomenological approach to distress to minimize the clinical tendency to pathologize individual sufferers, and to illuminate the destructive capacities of politically and historically produced conditions of social &quot;normal abnormality.&quot; The continuum of lived experience of social suffering is poignantly articulated by a member of one of society's most vulnerable sectors, a ten-year-old child.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0745-5194",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}