Chapter 1 Introduction: Hurt Feelings?

Chapter 2 Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 3 The Perception of Pain in Late Imperial China

Chapter 5 Phantom Suffering: Amputees, Stump Pain and Phantom Sensations in Modern Britain

Chapter 6 The Emergence of Chronic Pain: Phantom Limbs, Subjective Experience and Pain Management in Post-War West Germany

Chapter 7 A Quantity of Suffering: Measuring Pain as Emotion in the Mid-Twentieth-Century USA

Chapter 8 Killing Pain? Aspirin, Emotion and Subjectivity

Chapter 9 Body, Mind and Madness: Pain in Animals in Nineteenth-Century Comparative Psychology

Chapter 10 Down in the Mouth: Faces of Pain

Chapter 11 ‘When I Think of What is Before Me, I Feel Afraid’: Narratives of Fear, Pain and Childbirth in Late Victorian Canada

Chapter 12 ‘The Agony of Despair’: Pain and the Cultural Script of Infanticide in England and Wales, 1860–1960

Chapter 13 Imagining Another’s Pain: Privilege and Limitation in Parent and Child Relations

Chapter 14 Observing Pain, Pain in Observing: Collateral Emotions in International Justice

Chapter 15 Documenting Bodies: Pain Surfaces