[Very Short Introductions 01] • Pain by Boddice, Rob -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction 1 Pain concepts

Vocabularies of pain Conceptual ambiguities Thinking globally about pain

2 Pain and piety

Pain and Christian practice Torture and punishment Patience as virtue A theological problem

3 Pain and the machine

Descartes and the machine Animal pain Pain knowledge Measuring pain Mechanical theories The imagery of harm

4 Pain and civilization

Pain politics Birth and infant pain Race Urban nerves

5 Sympathy, compassion, empathy

Contexts of pain Sympathy knowledge The ‘wiring’ of empathy Empathy in context

6 Pain as pleasure

Looking at pain Divine pain Pain and sex Sexology

7 Pain in modern medicine and science

Nociception Gate control theory Sensational pathways Contingent pain The importance of affect Pain killers and placebo

8 Chronic pain

The scope of the problem The chronic pain anomaly Phantom pain New directions

9 Cultures of pain

Pain as a process Practices of sharing pain Figures of pain The vicissitudes of experience

References Further reading Index Social Media

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