Strick, Simon. <br/><br/>
American Dolorologies :  Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (264 pages) 
 - SUNY Press Open Access Series .
 - SUNY Press Open Access Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: What Is Dolorology? -- Sentimentalism and Pain -- Pain and Biopolitics -- Pain and Speaking -- Chapters -- Chapter Two: Sublime Pain and the Subject of Sentimentalism -- Gendered Aesthetics -- Sublime Physiology -- Muscle Compassion -- The Racial Sublime -- Americanizing Pain -- Chapter Three: Anesthesia, Birthpain, and Civilization -- Medical Martyrs -- Anesthesia and the Medical Gaze -- The Pains of Reproduction -- Birthpain As Racial Relay -- Overcivilization and Self-Conduct -- From Women's Anesthesia to Feminist Eugenics -- Anesthesia and Democracy -- Chapter Four: Picturing Racial Pain -- Histories of the Back -- Gordon -- Peter -- Pain and Racial Memory -- White Pain and the Nation -- Biopolitical Portraits -- Margaret Garner's Necropolitics -- The Children of Louisiana -- Passing Over -- Theatrical Slavery -- National Protection -- Miscegenation Portrait -- Visual Dolorologies -- Chapter Five: Late Modern Pain -- Democratic Pornography -- Unscathed Life -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover. 
<br/><br/> Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438450230 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pain -- Social aspects -- United States.<br/>Suffering -- Social aspects -- United States.<br/>Sentimentalism.<br/>United States -- Civilization.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4