Ingenious pain
Subtitle: a novel
By: Andrew Miller.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Surgeons -- England -- Bath -- Fiction; Bath (England) -- Fiction
Description: An 18th Century English surgeon is born immune to pain, making him oblivious to the suffering of others. This accounts for his professional success which attracts the attention of the Empress of Russia. On the way to treat her, he runs into a witch who gives him the sensation of pain. That sends him mad but he recovers, emerging from the asylum with the knowledge that without pain one is not really human.