Author: E. O. S.
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Story of Pain
Author: Joanna Bourke
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191003557
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this life and you wouldn't suffer in the next one'. Submission to pain was required. Nothing could be more removed from twentieth and twenty-first century understandings, where pain is regarded as an unremitting evil to be 'fought'. Focusing on the English-speaking world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and nature of suffering over the last three centuries. How have those in pain interpreted their suffering - and how have these interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react? And what about medical professionals: should they immerse themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind of professional detachment? As Joanna Bourke shows in this fascinating investigation, people have come up with many different answers to these questions over time. And a history of pain can tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own suffering in the present - and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191003557
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this life and you wouldn't suffer in the next one'. Submission to pain was required. Nothing could be more removed from twentieth and twenty-first century understandings, where pain is regarded as an unremitting evil to be 'fought'. Focusing on the English-speaking world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and nature of suffering over the last three centuries. How have those in pain interpreted their suffering - and how have these interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react? And what about medical professionals: should they immerse themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind of professional detachment? As Joanna Bourke shows in this fascinating investigation, people have come up with many different answers to these questions over time. And a history of pain can tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own suffering in the present - and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Pages : 966
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The Lancet London
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Languages : en
Pages : 1442
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Pages : 1442
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Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library: Additions from 1864 to 1879. 1 v. in 2. 1879
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Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Pages : 1124
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Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]
Author: Public Free Libraries (Manchester)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Pages : 1126
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Small Matters
Author: Mona Gleason
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773541330
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773541330
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.
The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction
Author: J. King
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230503578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison. By analysing these novels in the context of the scientific, religious and literary discourses that shaped Victorian ideas about gender, it contributes to an important inter-disciplinary debate. For while showing the power of these discourses to shape women's roles, the novels also suggest how individual women might challenge that power through their own lives.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230503578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison. By analysing these novels in the context of the scientific, religious and literary discourses that shaped Victorian ideas about gender, it contributes to an important inter-disciplinary debate. For while showing the power of these discourses to shape women's roles, the novels also suggest how individual women might challenge that power through their own lives.
Athenæum and Literary Chronicle
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Pages : 852
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Pages : 852
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Picturing Women's Health
Author: Ji Won Chung
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317319265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317319265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period.
The Medical Times and Gazette
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Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Pages : 1018
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