Tortured subjects : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France / Lisa Silverman.

  • Silverman, Lisa, 1969-
Date:
2001
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Publication/Creation

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Physical description

xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. 1. An epistemology of pain. Murder in the Rue Noue : the trials of Jean Bourdil and the legal system of old regime France. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . ." : judges, legal manuals, and the theory of torture. "To know the truth from his mouth" : the practice of torture in the parlement of Toulouse, 1600-1788 -- pt. 2. Pain, truth, and the body. "The excuteur of his own life" : lay piety and the valorization of pain. "The tortur'd patient" : pain, surgery, and suffering. As if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch" : pain as politics.

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    History of Medicine
    K.36
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  • 0226757536
  • 0226757544