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Gavin Francis: Pain, 21 August 2014
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
by Joanna Bourke.
Oxford, 396 pp., £20, June 2014,978 0 19 968942 2 Show More
by Joanna Bourke.
Oxford, 396 pp., £20, June 2014,
“... of sufferers and those in a position to relieve it, would seem impossible. In The Story of Pain, Joanna Bourke restricts her inquiry for the most part to the period between the mid-18th and mid-20th centuries, and looks only at literature in English. She examines the way pain isolates sufferers; its description by patients and clinicians; whether or not ... ”