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Zusatztext Written with dexterity! concision and clarity ... this is a very impressive short book about a polymorphous and highly elusive subject that combines first hand research! useful summaries of current debates! and explorations for future inquiries. Informationen zum Autor Rob Boddice is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin and a Research Associate of the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Pain and Emotion in Modern History (as editor) (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2014), Edward Jenner (Stroud: History Press, 2015), and The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution and Victorian Civilization (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, in press). Boddice holds a Ph.D in History from the University of York (2006). Klappentext Rob Boddice considers how perceptions of pain have varied across history, and how the treatment of pain has also changed. Beginning with the classical world, he charts the increasing distinction drawn between physical and emotional pain, and the growing modern focus on empathy and compassion towards pain in others, and in animals. Zusammenfassung Rob Boddice considers how perceptions of pain have varied across history, and how the treatment of pain has also changed. Beginning with the classical world, he charts the increasing distinction drawn between physical and emotional pain, and the growing modern focus on empathy and compassion towards pain in others, and in animals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1 Pathos, Passion, Algos, Dolor; 2 Pain and Piety; 3 Pain and the Machine; 4 Pain and Civilisation; 5 Sympathy, Compassion, Empathy; 6 Pain as Pleasure; 7 Pain in Modern Medicine and Science; 8 Chronic Pain; 9 Cultures of Pain; References; Further Reading; Index
