Search Results for: A History Of Pain

This work probes the restaging, representation, and reimagining of historical violence and atrocity in contemporary Chinese fiction, film, and popular culture.

This text draws on multidisciplinary sources to explore the concept of pain as it has been seen by different cultures over the course of history. It highlights

Pain touches sensitive nerves in American liberalism, conservatism, and political life. In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how

Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance

The story of pain and suffering since the eighteenth century. Prize-winning historian Joanna Bourke charts how our understanding of pain (and how to cope with i