{"product_id":"story-of-pain-from-prayer-to-painkillers-hardcover","title":"Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoanna Bourke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this life and you wouldn't suffer in the \u003cem\u003enext\u003c\/em\u003e one'. Submission to pain was required. Nothing could be more removed from twentieth and twenty-first century understandings, where pain is regarded as an unremitting evil to be 'fought'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the English-speaking world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and nature of suffering over the last three centuries. How have those in pain interpreted their suffering - and how have these interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react? And what about medical professionals: should they immerse themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind of professional detachment? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Joanna Bourke shows in this fascinating investigation, people have come up with many different answers to these questions over time. And a history of pain can tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own suffering in the present - and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoanna Bourke \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of History at Birkbeck College at University of London. She is the prize-winning author of nine books, including histories of modern warfare, military medicine, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, and rape. Among others, she is the author of \u003cem\u003eDismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eAn Intimate History of Killing\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), \u003cem\u003eFear: A Cultural History\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and \u003cem\u003eRape: A History from 1860 to the Present\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eWhat it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and \u003cem\u003eWounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives\u003c\/em\u003e (2014). \u003cem\u003eAn Intimate History of Killing\u003c\/em\u003e won the Wolfson Prize and the Fraenkel Prize, and \"Eyewitness,\" her audio history of Britain, won a number of prizes, including the Gold for the Most Original Audio. She is also a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular newspaper correspondent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 412\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52241598578962,"sku":"9780199689422","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/dDyRMAWLsl9780199689422.webp?v=1777903771","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/story-of-pain-from-prayer-to-painkillers-hardcover","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}