Constructing Pain

Taylor & Francis

Constructing PainHistorical, psychological and critical perspectives\nAuthor(s): Robert Kugelmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138841208, 978-1138841208\nSynopsis\nEveryone experiences pain, whether its emotional or physical, chronic or acute. Pain is part of what it means to be human, and so an understanding of how we relate to it as individuals - as well as cultures and societies - is fundamental to who we are. \n\nIn this important new book, the first in Routledges 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. Charting changes in how, after the development of modern painkillers, pain became a problem that could be solved, the book articulates how the possibilities for living with pain have changed over the last two hundred years.\n\nIncorporating r.