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Pain and Emotion in Modern History

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Editors:
  1. Rob Boddice

    1. Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Hurt Feelings?

    • Rob Boddice
    Pages 1-15

  3. Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early Modern Europe

    • Javier Moscoso
    Pages 16-35

  4. The Perception of Pain in Late Imperial China

    • Paolo Santangelo
    Pages 36-52

  5. Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?

    • David Biro
    Pages 53-65

  6. Phantom Suffering: Amputees, Stump Pain and Phantom Sensations in Modern Britain

    • Joanna Bourke
    Pages 66-89

  7. The Emergence of Chronic Pain: Phantom Limbs, Subjective Experience and Pain Management in Post-War West Germany

    • Wilfried Witte
    Pages 90-110

  8. A Quantity of Suffering: Measuring Pain as Emotion in the Mid-Twentieth-Century USA

    • Noémi Tousignant
    Pages 111-129

  9. Killing Pain? Aspirin, Emotion and Subjectivity

    • Sheena Culley
    Pages 130-147

  10. Body, Mind and Madness: Pain in Animals in Nineteenth-Century Comparative Psychology

    • Liz Gray
    Pages 148-163

  11. Down in the Mouth: Faces of Pain

    • Danny Rees
    Pages 164-186

  12. ‘When I Think of What is Before Me, I Feel Afraid’: Narratives of Fear, Pain and Childbirth in Late Victorian Canada

    • Whitney Wood
    Pages 187-203

  13. ‘The Agony of Despair’: Pain and the Cultural Script of Infanticide in England and Wales, 1860–1960

    • Daniel J. R. Grey
    Pages 204-219

  14. Imagining Another’s Pain: Privilege and Limitation in Parent and Child Relations

    • Linda Raphael
    Pages 220-242

  15. Observing Pain, Pain in Observing: Collateral Emotions in International Justice

    • James Burnham Sedgwick
    Pages 243-259

  16. Documenting Bodies: Pain Surfaces

    • Johanna Willenfelt
    Pages 260-276

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 277-284
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About this book

Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history. It explores pain at the intersection of the living, suffering body, and the discursive cultural webs that entangle it in its specific moment.

Reviews

"In Pain and Emotion in Modern History, Rob Boddice and his collaborators offer an illuminating and provocative study of the physical, psychological and emotional aspects of pain that historically structured medical interventions into physical distress and

shaped individual experiences." - The British Journal for the History of Science

"...an indispensable contribution to the increasing scholarship on the history of pain." - Social History of Medicine

"I would recommend anyone interested in the intersect between pain and emotion to go out and buy, beg or borrow a copy. Pain and Emotion in Modern History is an impressively researched must-read, presenting pain as a multifaceted, evolving, social, historical, physiological and psychological event to which we do not have, and may never have the answer." - Medical Humanities

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Rob Boddice

About the editor

David Biro, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, UK James Burnham Sedgwick, Acadia University, Canada Sheena Culley, Kingston University, UK Liz Gray, Queen Mary University of London, UK Daniel Grey, Plymouth University, UK Javier Moscoso, Spanish National Research Council Linda Raphael, George Washington University, USA Danny Rees, Wellcome Library, UK Paolo Santangelo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Noemi Tousignant, University of Cambridge, UK Johanna Willenfelt, University of Cumbria, UK Wilfried Witte, Charité University Clinic of Berlin, Germany Whitney Wood, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada

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