Pain: A Very Short Introduction - Rob Boddice

Pain: A Very Short Introduction

By Rob Boddice

  • Release Date: 2017-07-20
  • Genre: Medical

Description

Rob Boddice considers how perceptions of pain have varied across history, and how the treatment of pain has also changed. Beginning with the classical world, he charts the increasing distinction drawn between physical and emotional pain, and the growing modern focus on empathy and compassion towards pain in others, and in animals.