Description

Book Synopsis
Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain.

Table of Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction

I
LIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE?
2
THE MEANINGS OF PAIN
3
AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC
4
THE PAIN OF COMEDY
5
HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER
6
VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICS
OF SUFFERING
7
PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD
8
THE USES OF PAIN
9
PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY AND
AFFLICTION
10
SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 224
11
TRAGIC PAIN
12
THE FUTURE OF PAIN

Notes
Index
CONTENTS

The Culture of Pain

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 12/04/1993
    ISBN13: 9780520082762, 978-0520082762
    ISBN10: 0520082761
    Also in:
    Anthropology Decolonisation

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain.

    Table of Contents
    Figures
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction

    I
    LIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE?
    2
    THE MEANINGS OF PAIN
    3
    AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC
    4
    THE PAIN OF COMEDY
    5
    HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER
    6
    VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICS
    OF SUFFERING
    7
    PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD
    8
    THE USES OF PAIN
    9
    PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY AND
    AFFLICTION
    10
    SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 224
    11
    TRAGIC PAIN
    12
    THE FUTURE OF PAIN

    Notes
    Index
    CONTENTS

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