Knowledge and pain / / edited by Esther Cohen ...[et. al.].
Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain through the lens of humanistic studies. Methodologically, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of the questions pertaining to the accessibility of pain...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Knowing Pain / S. Benjamin Fink
- ‘If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?’ Reflections on the Diminishing of the Other’s Pain / Esther Cohen
- Gower and Chaucer on Pain and Suffering: Jephte’s Daughter in the Bible, the ‘Physician’s Tale’ and the Confessio Amantis / R. F. Yeager
- Pain as Emotion: The Role of Emotional Pain in Fifteenth-Century Italian Medicine and Confession / Na’ama Cohen-Hanegbi
- The Changing Faces of Love Torments: Continuity and Rupture in the Medical Diagnosis of Lovesickness in the Modern West / Michal Altbauer-Rudnik
- The Rhetoric of Pain: Religious Convulsions and Miraculous Healings in the Jansenist Parish of Saint Médard, Paris (1727-1732) / Michèle Bokobza Kahan
- The Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity To the Suffering of Animals / Nathaniel Wolloch
- Visceral Pleasures and Pains / Otniel E. Dror
- The Code of Pain in Chekhov / Natalia Pervukhina-Kamyshnikova
- After the Camps: Semantic Shift and the Experience of Pain / Manuela Consonni
- Folk Theodicy in Concentration Camps: Literary Representations / Leona Toker
- Pain and Blame: Psychological Approaches to Obstetric Pain, 1950-1980 / Paula A. Michaels
- What Does Falling Ill Mean? Illness Narratives as Elucidation of Experience Expertise / Anna Leimumäki
- Place and Space in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Life, End of / Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
- Representations of Dementia in Narrative Fiction / Rebecca Anna Bitenc
- Fending Off Pain: David Grossman’s Labyrinth of Language / Nourit Melcer-Padon
- Tangled Complicities: Extracting Knowledge from Images of Abu Ghraib / Rebecca A. Adelman
- ‘Sorting through My Grief and Putting It into Boxes’: Comics and Pain / Ariela Freedman
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors.