by Bonica of ‘acute pain is a complex constellation of unpleasant sensory, perceptual, and emotional experiences and certain associated autonomic, psychological, emotional, and behavioural responses’. Therefore with logical consequence, the definition of analgesia for labour pain is equally as complex. In our study, we attempted to evaluate the complexity of pain and analgesia focusing on a pro...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.