xiii, 269 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Representations -- Pain and history -- Virgin martyrs -- The theater of cruelty -- Wars of religion -- The pain of Christ -- The anatomical theater -- 2.Imitation -- Invisible sensations -- Religious uses of pain -- 3.Sympathy -- Cartography of misery -- Public sensibility -- Counterfactual pain -- 4.Correspondence -- The century of pain -- The signs of pain -- The pain of childbirth -- The measure of pain -- 5.Trust -- The drama of unconsciousness -- The remedy -- Induced mental hallucination -- Unconscious suffering -- 6.Narrativity -- From the idea to the body -- Fetishism -- The normal and the pathological -- Masochism and asceticism -- The power of the idea -- 7.Coherence -- Elusive entities -- Identity -- Nervous pain -- Unconscious pain -- 8.Reiteration -- Hell -- The name -- The account -- Syphilis -- Phantom limbs -- Medicalization -- The culture of pain