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Pain Story [New Zealand] Joanna Burkecompleted How do we talk about our pain? How to deal with pain? Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Frankel Prize, this is a blockbuster book, a cultural history of pain spanning three hundred years. In an era when we are avoiding pain, let us see that pain has its own meaning. From toothaches, headaches, menstrual cramps, muscle pain, to mental anguish, everyone is troubled by pain and tries to describe it with various metaphors. How have people's perceptions and narratives of pain changed, from —Reads8.3Score—Shelves