The Complex Reality of Pain

ISBN-13: 9780367353698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 218 str.

Jennifer Corns

Opis

This book employs contemporary philosophy, scientific research, and clinical reports to argue that pain, though real, is not an appropriate object of scientific generalisations or medical intervention. Each pain experience is complex and idiosyncractic in a way which undermines scientific utility.

O autorze

Jennifer Corns is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on pain, affect, suffering, and death. She is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain (Routledge, 2017), and co-editor of Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance (Routledge, 2018) and Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity (Routledge, forthcoming).