Pain and humanity in the Confucian learning of the heart-and-mind / Tu Weiming. Response: reflections from psychiatry on emergent mind and empathy / Laurence J. Kirmayer
Painful memories: ritual and the transformation of community trauma / Jennifer Cole. Response: collective memory as a witness to collective pain / Stanley Tambiah. Discussion: pain, healing, and memory
Among schoolchildren: the use of body damage to express physical pain / Elaine Scarry
The poetics of anesthesia: representations of pain in the literatures of classical India / Martha Ann Selby. Response: doubleness, mātam, and Muharram drumming in South Asia / Richard K. Wolf. Discussion: the dislocation, representation, and communication of pain
On the cultural mediation of pain / Laurence J. Kirmayer. Discussion: the notion of face
The place of pain in the space of good and evil / Nicholas Wolterstorff. Response: the problem of action / Charles Hallisey
Afterword / Sarah Coakley.
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Pain and its transformations : the interface of biology and culture. ISBN 9780674024564. Published by Harvard University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
