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The Culture of Pain Paperback / softback - 1993
by David B. Morris
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Up-to-date medical knowledge is combined with the definition of pain in Western literature and culture. "The experience of pain as shaped by individual minds and specific cultures, from tortured victims of the Inquisition to the Nazi death camps, the phantom limb pain of amputees and the suffering of victims of arthritis, disability, cancer and AIDS".--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated.
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- Title The Culture of Pain
- Author David B. Morris
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 354
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-04-12
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780520082762
- ISBN 9780520082762 / 0520082761
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 6.03 x 0.9 in (22.78 x 15.32 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.461
From the rear cover
"This illuminating work boldly ranges beyond conventional boundaries to provide a deeper understanding of our common afflictions, our humanity, and our ennobling struggle for transcendence."--1992 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award, Judges Martha Nussbaum, Joyce Carol Oates, Ronald Steel "Eloquent and fascinating . . . Morris does not dispel the mystery of pain. Instead he explores its full scope. HIs message for doctors is that they should stop denying the mystery, stop insisting that pain is a mere biological puzzle. . . . His message for patients in pain is that the mind has many roles to play."--Melvin Konner, New York Times Book Review "Not only a rich tapestry of understanding, but also an elegantly written work, which is, perhaps paradoxically, a pleasure to read. . . . Any physician who treats people in pain ought to read this book, and I doubt that any will be able to approach pain in the same way afterward."--Howard Brody, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association