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1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 21 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Lynde Houck. |
| Summary |
In this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraines to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain-how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it. Her sources range from the trial of Joan of Arc to the essays of Virginia Woolf and Elaine Scarry to Hugh Laurie's portrayal of Gregory House on House M.D. As she engages with science, philosophy, visual art, rock lyrics, and field notes from her own medical adventures (both mainstream and alternative), she finds a way to express the often-indescribable experience of living with pain. Eschewing simple epiphanies, Olstein instead gives us a new language to contemplate and empathize with a fundamental aspect of the human condition. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Pain -- Patients -- Biography.
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Pain perception.
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Pain -- History.
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Pain -- Social aspects.
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Pain -- Psychological aspects.
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Pain -- Philosophy.
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Pain in literature.
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Pain in art.
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| Added Author |
Houck, Lynde, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781690587392 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1690587393 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12790659 |
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