The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World



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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Page: 393
ISBN: 0195036018, 9780195036015
Format: pdf


I am reading Elaine Scarry's 1987 book The Body in Pain: The making and unmaking of the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. It includes Diana Nemiroff, “Fourteen Meditations of Torture of Women by Nancy Spero”; Luisa Valenzuela, “Symmetries”; and an excerpt from Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Tomeya wrote this at 10:31 AM • Filed under humanism •. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World $12.78. New York: Oxford University Press; 1985. €�The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World”. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. [1] According to the National Archives currency converter, was about £90 in 2005 terms, or eleven days' labour from a craft builder in 1720. Book Notes for The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World. Elaine Scarry, The body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world Elaine Scarry, The body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world OUP | 1987 | ISBN 0195049969 | 393 Pages | PDF OCR | 15.2 MB. Conclusions: Results suggest that blogging about chronic pain and illness may .. Blogging promoted accountability (to self and others) and created opportunities for making meaning and gaining insights from the experience of illness, which nurtured a sense of purpose and furthered their understanding of their illness.