Story of Pain  -  Joanna Bourke

From Prayer to Painkillers

KORTE INHOUD

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them.

It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nin...
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2014 Uitgever: Oxford University Press 336 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0199689423 ISBN-13: 9780199689422