Knowledge and pain
By: edited by Esther Cohen ... [et al.].
Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 84; At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 84.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9789042035829
Subjects: Pain; Philosophy; Pain in literature; Psychology; History
Description: From the publisher: This book is a collection of new and controversial views on pain, its accessibility to understanding and its influence on knowledge. Despite contrary assumptions, the volume argues for the possibility to externalise and communicate pain through language, narrative and social contextualisation. Expressions and responses to pain are historicized and studied within several humanitarian disciplines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.