Tag: experience of pain

• The Mystery of Pain

  Obstetricians and midwives are, at times, unavoidable witnesses to pain; they wade through it, explain it, try to alleviate it, but never experience it because the physical sensation of pain cannot be transferred to anyone else. It is the one constant attendant in the labour room, the uninvited guest that, welcome or not, arrives early…

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  June 19, 2014

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  Elaine Scarry, etymology of the word pain, experience of pain, language of pain, McGill Pain Questionnaire, metaphor, metaphor of pain, midwives, mystery, Nietzsche on pain, obstetricians, Pain, pain has no voice, Physical pain, Shakespeare on pain, Theory of Mind, Virginia Woolf