Beschreibung:
In this important new book, the first in Routledge's new Critical Approaches to Health series, Robert Kugelmann provides an accessible and insightful overview of how the concept of pain has been understood historically, psychologically and anthropologically.
Acknowledgements. Series editor preface. Introduction. Part A: Constructing Pain Historically 1. Constructing Modern Pain: "The Conquest of Pain" 2. Constructing Real Pain 3. Constructing Pain Nondualistically. Part B: Phenomenology and Semiotics of Pain 4. Social Representations and Discourses of Chronic Pain 5. Constructing Psychological Pain 6. Phenomenologies of Pain 7. Pain as a Sign 8. Moral Pain and Knowledge