WHAT IS PAIN? A HISTORY THE PROTHERO LECTURE

What is pain? This article argues that it is useful to think of pain as a ‘kind of event’ or a way of being-in-the-world. Pain-events are unstable; they are historically constituted and reconstituted in relation to language systems, social and environmental interactions and bodily comportment. The h...

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Autor principal: Bourke, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3874838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24382934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0080440113000078
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Sumario:What is pain? This article argues that it is useful to think of pain as a ‘kind of event’ or a way of being-in-the-world. Pain-events are unstable; they are historically constituted and reconstituted in relation to language systems, social and environmental interactions and bodily comportment. The historical question becomes: how has pain been done and what ideological work do acts of being-in-pain seek to achieve? By what mechanisms do these types of events change? Who decides the content of any particular, historically specific and geographically situated ontology?

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