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Included in the program of 'Read, think, imagine' and 'Cartagena thinks', this Monday, February 6 at 8 pm presents the essay 'Cultural history of pain', by Javier Moscoso.
At the event, which will be held in the adult library of the Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy, intrevendrán Belén Rosa de Gea, Promoter Group 'Cartagena Piensa', and the author himself.
In the book, pain appears as a social phenomenon, which overcomes the different reductions that have been tried to submit from biomedicine to facilitate and simplify their understanding.
In fact, often the pain of the person is expressed better in body language or artistic expression than in the word.
It is for this reason that pain is rarely mute, which converts the silences of pain into something that is made visible through the cultural attributes described by Moscoso, from representation to reiteration.
Sometimes, it seems that pain only exists in those people who suffer from it.
It is something that tends to contemplate as someone else, who belongs to others.
But cultural history teaches us that pain ends up being present in the biography of all people at some point in their lives and the discomfort it produces is never forgotten, even though it can be ignored.
In addition, the contemplation of the pain of "the others" is, at the same time, an invitation to learn and to fear the pain for those who want to see it and have not suffered it.
It is an experience that does not leave indifferent.
That pain that Javier Moscoso shows us has always existed and is inherent to the condition of being human.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Javier Moscoso is Professor of Research on History and Philosophy of Science at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
Throughout his career, he has worked in three major areas: the history of life sciences in the eighteenth century, the history of signs and singularities in modern Europe and the history of pain in the West between the fifteenth century And XX.
His latest book, Cultural History of Pain, was published in October 2011 by Taurus, and in 2012 his English translation was released in Palgrave-Macmillan.
This text has been considered by critics as an example of cultural history (Prof. Johanna Bourke) or medical humanities, (Fay Bound, Medical History).
He is currently preparing a new book, both in Spanish and in English, on the passions of modernity
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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