Download or read book Writing in Pain written by V. Ramazani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial."