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Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas is a trans-cultural collection of studies on visual treatments of the phenomena of suffering and pain in early modern culture. Ranging geographically from Italy, Spain, and the Low Countries to Chile, Mexico, and the Philippines and chronologically from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, these studies variously consider pain and suffering as somatic, emotional, and psychological experiences. From examination of bodies shown victimized by brutal public torture to the sublimation of physical suffering conveyed through the incised lines of Counter-Reformation engravings, the authors consider depictions of pain and suffering as conduits to the divine or as guides to social behaviour; indeed, often the two functions overlap.

pain [sensation] --- suffering --- Iconography --- emotion --- iconography --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Latin America --- Europe --- Art, Spanish colonial --- Art, European --- Suffering in art. --- Pain in art. --- Spanish colonial art --- Art, Colonial --- Themes, motives.

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Human anatomy --- Sculpture --- Painting --- painting [image-making] --- grief --- pain [sensation] --- heroes --- sculpting --- lust --- figure works --- human figures [visual works]

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This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. The greatest surprise I encountered in discussing this topic over the past ten years was the consistency with which I was asked a single unvarying question: Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? The overwhelming consistency of this response convinces me that modern culture rests upon and underlying belief so strong that it grips us with the force of a founding myth. Call it the Myth of Two Pains. We live in an era when many people believe--as a basic, unexamined foundation of thought--that pain comes divided into separate types: physical and mental. These two types of pain, so the myth goes, are as different as land and sea. You feel physical pain if your arm breaks, and you feel mental pain if your heart breaks. Between these two different events we seem to imagine a gulf so wide and deep that it might as well be filled by a sea that is impossible to navigate.

Pain --- Medicine in the Arts. --- Medicine in Literature. --- Social Environment. --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- psychology. --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology --- Human medicine

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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it.

Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. 

Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.

War --- Torture --- Guerre --- Pain. --- War. --- Body, Human --- -Body in literature --- Religious aspects --- Pain --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- Cruelty --- Punishment --- Extraordinary rendition --- Aches --- Emotions --- Pleasure --- Senses and sensation --- Symptoms --- Analgesia --- Suffering --- Philosophical anthropology --- Semiotics --- pijn --- filosofie --- literatuur --- psychologie --- lichamelijkheid --- politiek --- oorlog --- kunsttheorie --- 130.2 --- cultuurfilosofie --- geweld --- sociologie --- Body, Human - - Religious aspects --- Body in literature

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Offers an incisive critique of the approach of modern medicine. Drawing on a number of evocative patient narratives, the author writes that the enduring goal of medicine must be the relif of suffering. The understanding of persons and sickness necessary to achieve that goal illuminates the treatment of all. This work will appeal to all physicians and others interested in medicine. Palliative care and hospice workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and others interested in pain and suffering should find it particular useful.

Philosophical anthropology --- Human medicine --- Medicine --- Suffering. --- Physician and patient. --- Palliative treatment. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Chronic Disease --- Pain Management. --- Palliative Care --- Physician-Patient Relations. --- Médecine --- Souffrance. --- Relations médecin-patient. --- Soins palliatifs. --- Arts-patiënt-relatie. --- Patiënten. --- Lijden. --- Geneeskunde. --- Filosofische aspecten. --- Palliatieve behandeling. --- Analgesie. --- Philosophy. --- therapy. --- methods. --- Philosophie.