Pain and Emotion in Modern History

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Hurt Feelings?....Pages 1-15
Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early Modern Europe....Pages 16-35
The Perception of Pain in Late Imperial China....Pages 36-52
Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?....Pages 53-65
Phantom Suffering: Amputees, Stump Pain and Phantom Sensations in Modern Britain....Pages 66-89
The Emergence of Chronic Pain: Phantom Limbs, Subjective Experience and Pain Management in Post-War West Germany....Pages 90-110
A Quantity of Suffering: Measuring Pain as Emotion in the Mid-Twentieth-Century USA....Pages 111-129
Killing Pain? Aspirin, Emotion and Subjectivity....Pages 130-147
Body, Mind and Madness: Pain in Animals in Nineteenth-Century Comparative Psychology....Pages 148-163
Down in the Mouth: Faces of Pain....Pages 164-186
‘When I Think of What is Before Me, I Feel Afraid’: Narratives of Fear, Pain and Childbirth in Late Victorian Canada....Pages 187-203
‘The Agony of Despair’: Pain and the Cultural Script of Infanticide in England and Wales, 1860–1960....Pages 204-219
Imagining Another’s Pain: Privilege and Limitation in Parent and Child Relations....Pages 220-242
Observing Pain, Pain in Observing: Collateral Emotions in International Justice....Pages 243-259
Documenting Bodies: Pain Surfaces....Pages 260-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-284