Culture of Pain

by Morris, David B.

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ISBN-13: 9780520072664
ISBN: 0520072669
Publisher: University of California Press

AUTHOR

Morris, David B.

SUMMARY

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.Morris, David B. is the author of 'Culture of Pain' with ISBN 9780520072664 and ISBN 0520072669.

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