The Culture of Pain (Paper)

TRAMA

Up-to-date medical knowledge is combined with the definition of pain in Western literature and culture. "The experience of pain as shaped by individual minds and specific cultures, from tortured victims of the Inquisition to the Nazi death camps, the phantom limb pain of amputees and the suffering of victims of arthritis, disability, cancer and AIDS".--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780520082762
• Dimensioni: 232 x 21.32 x 155 mm Ø 548 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 354