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Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.
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Front Matter
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'Javier Moscoso's book is a dazzling example of cultural history. For anyone who ever wondered about the meaning of pain and how those meanings have changed over time this is the book for you.'
- Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College
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About the author
JAVIER MOSCOSO is Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His academic career has been devoted to the cultural history of the human body. He was the curator of the London Science Museum exhibition Pain. Passion. Compassion. Sensibility.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pain
Book Subtitle: A Cultural History
Authors: Javier Moscoso
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284235
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9118-8Published: 10 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54260-4Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28423-5Published: 10 September 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 301
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, European History, Social History, Cultural History, Modern History, Intellectual Studies