The Culture of Pain

Author/creator Morris, David B. Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press
Description354 p. ill 23.000 x 015.300 cm.
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Summary Annotation 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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Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780520082762
ISBN0520082761 (Trade Paper) Active Record
Standard identifier# 9780520082762
Stock number00027125

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