Pain, sympathy and the medical encounter between the mid eighteenth and the mid twentieth centuries

Witnessing people in pain inevitably elicits anxiety in physicians and other caregivers. Physicians are often required to inflict certain types of discomforts in order to alleviate other, more destructive, pains. Accusations that physicians lacked sympathy can be heard throughout the centuries. This...

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Veröffentlicht in:Historical research : the bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research. - 1987. - 85(2012), 229 vom: 31. Aug., Seite 430-452
1. Verfasser: Bourke, Joanna (VerfasserIn)
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2012
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Historical research : the bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Schlagworte:Journal Article