The story of pain: from prayer to painkillers
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 218
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199689422
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Story of Pain is an archival-based exploration of the changing social, political, and medical meanings of pain in Britain, America, Australia, and New Zealand, 1830s-2016. It draws on 27 archives in Britain, six in Ireland, nine in the U.S., three in Australia, and two in New Zealand. It is a highly theoretical book, asking “what is ‘pain’?” and arguing that the most productive approach is to conceive of pain as “a type of event”. The book has generated significant attention not only from scholars in the history of medicine and the medical humanities but also by medical practitioners.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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