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

Author/Contributor(s):	Scarry, Elaine
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	04/23/1987
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.