Pain A Political History
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781421413655
Description: This book examines how pain and compassionate relief define a line between society's liberal trends and conservative tendencies. Tracing the development of pain theories in politics, medicine, and law, and legislative and social quarrels over the morality and economics of relief, the author points to a tension at the heart of the conservative-liberal divide.