Download or read book The Body in Pain written by Elaine Scarry and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking meditation on pain and the literary, philosophical, political, medical, and religious vocabularies used to describe it, Scarry analyzes physical pain within numerous contexts by examining a wide range of original sources ranging from court transcripts to Amnesty International testimony on the effects of torture.