Work

Perspectives on Pain: Introduction

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This issue of 19 has been guest edited by Louise Hide, Joanna Bourke, and Carmen Mangion. Collectively, we comprise the Birkbeck Pain Project, a three-year Wellcome Trust funded project that is led by Joanna Bourke. We are particularly interested in understanding how the meaning of pain - for sufferers, physicians, and other witnesses - changed over time. In this issue, articles by social and cultural historians, as well as literary scholars, examine and analyse the implications of shifting discourses in personal narratives as well as in religious communities, and in philosophical, medical, and psychiatric texts. By analysing language within current theories of the time, we can deepen our understanding of the complex interaction between the body, mind, and culture to gain insights into the ever-changing subjective experience of pain.

Source: 19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

DOI: 10.16995/ntn.663

Authors: Carmen Mangion, Joanna Bourke, Joanna Louise Hide

Institution: Birkbeck, University of London

Language: English

Topic: History of Emotions Research

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Wellcome Trust

Award: A History of Pain from the eighteenth century to the present.