Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience

ISBN-13: 9781509550548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 234 str.

Rob Boddice

Recenzje

'How can we know the pain of others? If we have no access to their suffering, how can we hope to alleviate it? By an astute and complex analysis of the ways people experienced distress in the past and continue to do so in the present, Rob Boddice reflects on such questions. It will change the way we think about pain.'Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London'Boddice illuminates the history of pain, one of the most fundamental biological mechanisms and cultural experiences of humankind. It is a rich history of the experience of pain, but also a history of its different conceptualizations, our ways of studying it, and its social dimensions. This is a book that will captivate scholars and scientists across disciplines.'Manos Tsakiris, Royal Holloway, University of London'ambitious history of pain'Nature

Spis treści

PrologueIntroduction: Disrupting a Definition1. Scripting: The Politics of Knowledge2. Experiencing: Objectivity versus Subjectivity3. Worlding: Expressing and Managing4. Suffering: Chronicity and Pain Syndromes5. Commiserating: Sensing, Feeling, and Witnessing the Other in Pain6. Contextualising : Pleasure and Punishment7. Embodying: Nocebo/PlaceboConclusion: The Mutable PatientEpilogue

O autorze

Rob Boddice is a Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) at Tampere University.