Pain Studies by Lisa Olstein

Pain Studies

Lisa Olstein

3 hours, 20 minutes first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays health memoir reflective medium-paced

Description

In this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraines to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it. Her sources range from the trial of Joan of Arc ...

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Moods

reflective 85%
informative 57%
challenging 42%
emotional 14%
relaxing 14%
sad 14%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 50%

Average rating

3.34

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