- Title
- What is pain? A history: the Prothero Lecture
- Creator
- Bourke, Joanna
- Relation
- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Vol. 23, Issue December 2013, p. 155-173
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0080440113000078
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- 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?
- Subject
- pain; pain-events; environmental interactions
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1357493
- Identifier
- uon:31925
- Identifier
- ISSN:0080-4401
- Rights
- © Royal Historical Society 2013 The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
- Language
- eng
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