Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience

by Rob Boddice

Pain, while known to almost everyone, is not universal. The evidence of our own pain, and our own experience, does not provide us with automatic insight into the pains of others, past or present. No matter how self-evident and ubiquitous the sting of a papercut or the desolation of heartbreak might seem, pain is situated and historically specific.

Sometimes personal, always political, Rob Boddice reveals a history of pain that juggles many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509550542
• ISBN13: 9781509550548
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"