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The History of Pain
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by Roselyne Rey, Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, and S.W. Cadden
Sales Rank: 1367603
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$12.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 432 pages
Published by: Harvard University Press August 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674399676
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674399679
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
In this erudite and broadly conceived work, Rey discusses the social construction of pain in Western history from antiquity to modern times.
--Roy Porter, Professor of the History of Medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Product Description
Feared by most, sought out by others, pain may manifest itself as a benevolent messenger warning of imminent danger or a repellent nemesis that undermines and incapacitates us. Throughout the ages pain has intrigued those who focus on the soul and the sacred in equal measure to those who specialize in the body and medicine.
In The History of Pain, Roselyne Rey draws on multidisciplinary sources to explore this universally shared experience. From classical antiquity to the twentieth century, she contrasts the different cultural perceptions of pain in each period, as well as the medical theories advanced to explain its mechanisms, and the various therapeutic remedies formulated to relieve those suffering from it.
This broad historical perspective, both accurate and remarkably erudite, highlights the extraordinary transformation in humanity's relationship to pain, chronicles the considerable progress made in its understanding and treatment, and explores the shadowy areas of mystery which remain to this day.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: History of pain (Histoire des sciences)
Roselyne Rey's History of Pain is probably the most comprehensive academic history of all things related to physical pain. Still, Rey's work, originally published in French, is thorough but uses almost exclusively French language resources. Rey is one of the few historians who examined the work going on at the Pneumatic Institution and rightly concluded that these early experiments and treatments with gases were fundamentally different from explorations into the character and problems of pain. Rey also points out that some of the reasons generally presented by the clinician historians for the so-called delayed adoption of anesthesia (purification, dosage, and duration of administration) were not in any way historically causing the delay. She emphases the idea that these technical issues were resolved not just when medical practitioners viewed them as problems to be remedied, but when society as a whole was able to resolve the issue of problematic invasive surgical procedures. Rey's work is extensive, covering antiquity to the 20th century and examining anesthesia, opiates and other drugs, and ways of communicating pain.
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