Writing in Pain : Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial /

This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the...

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Main Author:	Ramazani, Vaheed (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:	Psychology. Community and Environmental Psychology. Cultural History. European Literature. History of France. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Personality and Social Psychology. Civilization > History. Community psychology. Environmental psychology. European literature. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Personality. Social psychology. France > History. Electronic books.
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Summary:	This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial.".
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (IX, 189 pages)
ISBN:	9780230607231
DOI:	10.1057/9780230607231