Pain and Emotion in Modern History

1. Introduction: Hurt Feelings?
Rob Boddice

2. Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early Modern Europe
Javier Moscoso

3. The Perception of Pain in Late Imperial China
Paolo Santangelo

4. Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?
David Biro

5. Phantom Suffering: Amputees, Stump Pain and Phantom Sensations in Modern Britain
Joanna Bourke

6. The Emergence of Chronic Pain: Phantom Limbs, Subjective Experience and Pain Management in Post-War West Germany
Wilfried Witte

7. A Quantity of Suffering: Measuring Pain as Emotion in the Mid-Twentieth-Century USA
Noémi Tousignant

8. Killing Pain? Aspirin, Emotion and Subjectivity
Sheena Culley

9. Body, Mind and Madness: Pain in Animals in Nineteenth-Century Comparative Psychology
Liz Gray

10. Down in the Mouth: Faces of Pain
Danny Rees

11. ‘When I Think of What is Before Me, I Feel Afraid’: Narratives of Fear, Pain and Childbirth in Late Victorian Canada
Whitney Wood

12. ‘The Agony of Despair’: Pain and the Cultural Script of Infanticide in England and Wales, 1860–1960
Daniel J. R. Grey

13. Imagining Another’s Pain: Privilege and Limitation in Parent and Child Relations
Linda Raphael

14. Observing Pain, Pain in Observing: Collateral Emotions in International Justice
James Burnham Sedgwick

15. Documenting Bodies: Pain Surfaces
Johanna Willenfelt

Keywords: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, History of Science, Modern History, Social History, Emotion