Knowing Pain

A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5054-8
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Pain, while known to almost everyone, is not universal. The evidence of our own pain, and our own experience, does not provide us with automatic insight into the pains of others, past or present. No matter how self-evident and ubiquitous the sting of a paper cut or the desolation of heartbreak might seem, pain is situated and historically specific.

In a work that is sometimes personal, always political, Rob Boddice reveals a history of pain that juggles many disciplinary approaches and disparate languages to tackle the thorniest challenges in pain research. He explores the shifting meaning-making processes that produce painful experiences, expanding the world of pain to take seriously the relationship between pain’s physicality and social and emotional suffering. Ranging from antiquity to the present and taking in pain knowledge and pain experiences from around the world, his tale encompasses not only injury, but also grief, exclusion, chronic pain, and trauma, and reveals how knowledge claims about pain occupy what pain is like.

Innovative and compassionate in equal measure, Knowing Pain puts forward an original pain agenda that is essential reading for those interested in the history of emotions, senses, and experience, for medical researchers and practitioners, and for anyone who has known pain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boddice, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

Introduction: Disrupting a Definition

1. Scripting: The Politics of Knowledge

2. Experiencing: Objectivity versus Subjectivity

3. Worlding: Expressing and Managing

4. Suffering: Chronicity and Pain Syndromes

5. Commiserating: Sensing, Feeling, and Witnessing the Other in Pain

6. Contextualising: Pleasure and Punishment

7. Embodying: Nocebo/Placebo

Conclusion: The Mutable Patient

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Boddice is a Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) at Tampere University.