In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrong doing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain from martyrdom narratives to practices of torture and surgery "The Modulated Scream" attempts to decode this culture of suffering in the Middle Ages.
Esther Cohen brings to life the cacophony of howls emerging from the written record of physicians, torturers, theologians, and mystics. In considering how people understood suffering, explained it,...
In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment ...
Until recently, the cross-linguistic phenomenon of discourse markers such as the English oh, like and y(ou) know has been considered part of poor linguistic performance. This book shows that they are actually a mono-functional verbal class, whose overall function is to monitor conversation. Every discourse is an interaction between the various participants models of the world, i.e. a model of the ongoing conversation, knowledge of the world and contextually relevant factors. The use of a discourse marker signals an upcoming or undergone structural and/or referential adaptation of one of these...
Until recently, the cross-linguistic phenomenon of discourse markers such as the English oh, like and y(ou) know has been considered part of poor ling...
Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain through the lens of humanistic studies. Methodologically, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of the questions pertaining to the accessibility of pain (physical or emotional) to understanding and of the possible influence of suffering on the enhancement of knowledge in private experience or public sphere. Undeterred by the widespread belief that pain cannot be expressed in language and that it is intransmissible to others, the authors of the...
Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain throug...
- Presented into two clear and understandable sections: theoretical/empirical and intervention programs
- Both authors have immense experience dealing with disaster and mass trauma, both in Israel and in the United States
- Serves as both a reference tool and as a toolkit that can be used by all important players involved, which include mental health personnel, teachers, and parents
- Presented into two clear and understandable sections: theoretical/empirical and intervention programs
