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Pain: The Science of Suffering examines the philosophical basis of pain as well as our physiological experience of it. We are taken on a journey through our nerves, spinal chords, bloods, tissues and brain, laying bare the hard scientific facts of the mechanisms of pain as we know them. Wall also analyses the images of suffering within society, such as those found in cultural stereotypes--why do we have all those Mother-in-Law jokes, religious experiences such as the Passion of Christ and childbirth?. Wall's book is a remarkable achievement, a concise journey through a vast array of new ideas and an effective summary of existing ones. The one criticism of this book is that it is too short! Wall stresses in the "Introduction" that "this is not a textbook". To call it so would be to miss the point of this truly fascinating book. --Alison Jardine
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