Pain : a very short introduction / Rob Boddice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boddice, Rob, author.

Series:

Very short introductions ; 528.

Very short introductions ; 528

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain.

Pain Management.

Pain--Treatment--History.

Pain--History.

Pain--Religious aspects--History.

Pain--Religious aspects.

Pain--Treatment.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Pain.

Pain Management.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 133 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In this 'Very Short Introduction', Rob Boddice explores the history, culture, and medical science of pain. Charting the shifting meanings of pain across time and place, he focusses on how the experience and treatment of pain have changed. He describes historical hierarchies of pain experience that related pain to social class and race, and the privileging of human states of pain over that of other animals. From the pain concepts of classical antiquity to expressions of pain in contemporary art, and modern medical approaches to the understanding, treatment, and management of pain, Boddice weaves a multifaceted account of this central human experience. Ranging from neuroscientific innovations in experimental medicine to the constructionist arguments of social scientists, pain is shown to resist a timeless definition. Pain is physical and emotional, of body and mind, and is always experienced subjectively and contextually.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198738565

0198738560

OCLC:

945088462

Publisher Number:

99974782364