The modulated scream : pain in late medieval culture / Esther Cohen.

  • Cohen, Esther, 1947 December 21-
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2009, ©2010
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Description

This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that.

Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009, ©2010.

Physical description

xiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Manipulating pain -- The uses of suffering -- "Twisting the mind": torture and truth-finding -- Alleviating pain -- The script of pain behavior -- Knowledge from pain -- The vocabulary and typology of pain -- The Christian history of humanity -- Human and divine passion -- Impassibility -- Conclusion.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PB.AA2
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780226112671
  • 0226112675