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19 June 2014updated 24 Jun 2021 12:59pm

This won’t hurt a bit: the cultural history of pain

Speculation about the degree to which human beings and animals experienced pain has a long history.

By Joanna Bourke

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Jack the ripper: three plates from Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty’s Myologie (1746-48), the first full-colour anatomical atlas. Taken from the sick rose by Richard Barnett (Thames & Hudson, £19.95)

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