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Understanding Pain: A History of Sensations, Emotions, and Experiences – Boddis Rob – New Literary Review – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2518-1

Understanding Pain: A History of Sensations, Emotions, and Experiences
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Understanding Pain: A History of Sensations, Emotions, and Experiences
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What is pain? How is it felt and described? Are our conceptions of it so universal? As Rob Boddis's book shows, these questions only seem elementary: the answers are not simple at all. Drawing on disciplines ranging from history, political science, and anthropology to psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the author analyzes how our pain is linked to the culture to which we belong.
Suffering is physical and psychological, torture and masochism, ancient and recent medical theories, superstition, racial and gender bias... Our accumulated experience of pain becomes a history of mind-body interaction - an interaction that always exists in a cultural context. Rob Boddis is a writer, historian of emotions, author of several books on pain and the history of medicine, and a researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland.
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