Pain and Emotion in Modern History

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Hurt Feelings?

   • Rob Boddice

   Pages 1-15

3. Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early Modern Europe

   • Javier Moscoso

   Pages 16-35

4. The Perception of Pain in Late Imperial China

   • Paolo Santangelo

   Pages 36-52

5. Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?

   • David Biro

   Pages 53-65

6. Phantom Suffering: Amputees, Stump Pain and Phantom Sensations in Modern Britain

   • Joanna Bourke

   Pages 66-89

7. The Emergence of Chronic Pain: Phantom Limbs, Subjective Experience and Pain Management in Post-War West Germany

   • Wilfried Witte

   Pages 90-110

8. A Quantity of Suffering: Measuring Pain as Emotion in the Mid-Twentieth-Century USA

   • Noémi Tousignant

   Pages 111-129

9. Killing Pain? Aspirin, Emotion and Subjectivity

   • Sheena Culley

   Pages 130-147

10. Body, Mind and Madness: Pain in Animals in Nineteenth-Century Comparative Psychology

    • Liz Gray

    Pages 148-163

11. Down in the Mouth: Faces of Pain

    • Danny Rees

    Pages 164-186

12. ‘When I Think of What is Before Me, I Feel Afraid’: Narratives of Fear, Pain and Childbirth in Late Victorian Canada

    • Whitney Wood

    Pages 187-203

13. ‘The Agony of Despair’: Pain and the Cultural Script of Infanticide in England and Wales, 1860–1960

    • Daniel J. R. Grey

    Pages 204-219

14. Imagining Another’s Pain: Privilege and Limitation in Parent and Child Relations

    • Linda Raphael

    Pages 220-242

15. Observing Pain, Pain in Observing: Collateral Emotions in International Justice

    • James Burnham Sedgwick

    Pages 243-259

16. Documenting Bodies: Pain Surfaces

    • Johanna Willenfelt

    Pages 260-276

17. Back Matter

    Pages 277-284

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Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history. It explores pain at the intersection of the living, suffering body, and the discursive cultural webs that entangle it in its specific moment.

• Pain
• History of Medicine
• History of Science
• Medical Humanities
• History of Emotions
• eighteenth century
• emotion
• feelings
• Germany
• history
• perception
• Privileg

"In Pain and Emotion in Modern History, Rob Boddice and his collaborators offer an illuminating and provocative study of the physical, psychological and emotional aspects of pain that historically structured medical interventions into physical distress and

shaped individual experiences." - The British Journal for the History of Science

"...an indispensable contribution to the increasing scholarship on the history of pain." - Social History of Medicine

"I would recommend anyone interested in the intersect between pain and emotion to go out and buy, beg or borrow a copy. Pain and Emotion in Modern History is an impressively researched must-read, presenting pain as a multifaceted, evolving, social, historical, physiological and psychological event to which we do not have, and may never have the answer." - Medical Humanities

• Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

  Rob Boddice

David Biro, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, UK James Burnham Sedgwick, Acadia University, Canada Sheena Culley, Kingston University, UK Liz Gray, Queen Mary University of London, UK Daniel Grey, Plymouth University, UK Javier Moscoso, Spanish National Research Council Linda Raphael, George Washington University, USA Danny Rees, Wellcome Library, UK Paolo Santangelo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Noemi Tousignant, University of Cambridge, UK Johanna Willenfelt, University of Cumbria, UK Wilfried Witte, Charité University Clinic of Berlin, Germany Whitney Wood, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada

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