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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Elaine Scarry

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#2413 of 3,809 books · #132 in General

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1985).

In this ground-breaking meditation on pain and the literary, philosophical, political, medical, and religious vocabularies used to describe it, Scarry analyzes physical pain within numerous contexts by examining a wide range of original sources ranging from court transcripts to Amnesty International testimony on the effects of torture.

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ISBN-13
9780195049961
Topics
Pain and sufferingTortureLanguage and representation

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