The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

by Joanna Bourke

Book Overview

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'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199689423
• ISBN13: 9780199689422
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"