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ISBN: 9780520082762 - The Culture of Pain
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The Culture of Pain

David B. Morris

ISBN: 9780520082762
Format: Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Edition: New edition


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The recipient of the 1992 Pen/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award, this study combines modern medical knowledge with a detailed exploration of the definition of pain in Western culture and literature to restore the bridge between pain and meaning.

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Up-to-date medical knowledge is combined with the definition of pain in Western literature and culture. "The experience of pain as shaped by individual minds and specific cultures, from tortured victims of the Inquisition to the Nazi death camps, the phantom limb pain of amputees and the suffering of victims of arthritis, disability, cancer and AIDS".--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated.
 
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