Pain and Emotion in Modern History [electronic resource] /
Boddice, Robert Gregory.author.
Boddice, Rob.
Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history. It explores pain at the intersection of the living, suffering body, and the discursive cultural webs that entangle it in its specific moment.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Hurt Feelings?; 2 Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early Modern Europe; 3 The Perception of Pain in Late Imperial China; 4 Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?; 5 Phantom Suffering: Amputees, Stump Pain and Phantom Sensations in Modern Britain; 6 The Emergence of Chronic Pain: Phantom Limbs, Subjective Experience and Pain Management in Post-War West Germany; 7 A Quantity of Suffering: Measuring Pain as Emotion in the Mid-Twentieth-Century USA
8 Killing Pain? Aspirin, Emotion and Subjectivity9 Body, Mind and Madness: Pain in Animals in Nineteenth-Century Comparative Psychology; 10 Down in the Mouth: Faces of Pain; 11 ''When I Think of What is Before Me, I Feel Afraid'': Narratives of Fear, Pain and Childbirth in Late Victorian Canada; 12 ''The Agony of Despair'': Pain and the Cultural Script of Infanticide in England and Wales, 1860-1960; 13 Imagining Another''s Pain: Privilege and Limitation in Parent and Child Relations; 14 Observing Pain, Pain in Observing: Collateral Emotions in International Justice
15 Documenting Bodies: Pain SurfacesSelect Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history. It explores pain at the intersection of the living, suffering body, and the discursive cultural webs that entangle it in its specific moment.
World history.
Civilization—History.
History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Emotions.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Cultural History.
History of Science.
Modern History.
Social History.
Emotion.