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9780520082762

The Culture of Pain

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520082762

  • ISBN10:

    0520082761

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Up-to-date medical knowledge is combined with the definition of pain in Western literature and culture. "The experience of pain as shaped by individual minds and specific cultures, from tortured victims of the Inquisition to the Nazi death camps, the phantom limb pain of amputees and the suffering of victims of arthritis, disability, cancer and AIDS".--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

Figures
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(8)
Living Pain: Mystery or Puzzle?
9(22)
The Meanings of Pain
31(26)
An Invisible Epidemic
57(22)
The Pain of Comedy
79(24)
Hysteria, Pain, and Gender
103(22)
Visionary Pain and the Politics of Suffering
125(27)
Pain is Always in your Head
152(22)
The Uses of Pain
174(24)
Painful Pleasures: Beauty and Affliction
198(26)
Sex, Pain, and the Marquis De Sade
224(20)
Tragic Pain
244(23)
The Future of Pain
267(24)
Notes 291(46)
Index 337

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