TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olstein,Lisa
TI  - Pain studies
SN  - 9781942658689
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bellevue Literary Press
KW  - Pain
KW  - Patients
KW  - Biography
KW  - Pain perception
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Pain in literature
KW  - Pain in art
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189)
N2  - "Pain Studies is a book-length lyric essay at the intersection of pain, perception, and language. Through the prism of migraine, Pain Studies episodically and idiosyncratically explores personal, cultural, medical, and literary histories of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it--and undertakes extended engagements with a range of sources including the trial testimony of Joan of Arc, the television show House, M.D., rhetorical attributes of pre-Socratic philosophy and mathematical proofs, essays by Virginia Woolf and Elaine Scar[r]y, and the perception-based work of artists Donald Judd and James Turrell. Written from and into its own urgencies of both form and content, it is in conversation with recent books by Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss, Sarah Manguso, and Leslie Jamison, among others." --
ER  -