pain
pain
- Candida R. Moss
Summary
Although it was and continues to be an essential experience of the human condition, pain was understood polysemically in antiquity. Competing medical and philosophical theories of pain coexisted alongside one another and generated a variety of different ways of understanding the nature of pain. So, too, was the experience of pain evaluated either positively or negatively based on the particular.
Subjects
- Science, Technology, and Medicine