Documenting Bodies: Pain Surfaces
for The Pain Project

Documenting Bodies: Pain Surfaces, paper contribution to Pain as Emotion; Emotion as Pain, Perspectives from Modern History, symposium led by Rob Boddice (2012). The symposium was a part of Birkbeck Pain Project – a study run by Professor Joanna Bourke, Dr Louise Hide, and Carmen Mignon, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Birkbeck Pain Project set out to investigate how people-in-pain between the eighteenth century and the present made sense of their suffering and sought to communicate it to other people.