Bodies not in pain, who cannot physically feel the suffering, often stop at that imaginative chasm between them and the body in pain, unable to make the projective leap of empathy. For those bodies only "hearing about pain," suffering remains alien, opaque, closed to epistemological inquiry--to wit, clinically, scientifically unconfirmed. " more..


"AN ELEMENT OF BLANK": ON PAIN AND EXPERIMENTATION by Cynthia Hogue
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