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Author Scarry, Elaine, author

Title The body in pain : the making and unmaking of the world / Elaine Scarry
Edition First paperback edition
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987, c1985
©1985
©1985

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  128 Sca/Bip  AVAILABLE
 MELB  128 Sca/Bip 1987  DUE 05-04-24
Description vii, 385 pages. ; 21 cm
Contents Structure of torture : the conversion of real pain into the fiction power -- The structure of war : the juxtaposition of injured bodies and unanchored issues -- Pain and imaging -- The structure of belief and its modulation into material making : body and voice in the Judeo-Christian scriptures and the writings of Marx -- The interior structure of the artifact
Analysis Pain Psychosocial aspects
Notes First published: 1985
Pain. Psychosocial aspects (BNB/PRECIS)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Pain.
Torture.
War.
Armed Conflicts.
Pain.
Torture.
ISBN 0195036018
0195049969 (paperback)