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Pain: History Perceptions of pain have changed significantly over the years. The history of pain spills over from medicine into all areas of culture, particularly religion. LATEST ARTICLES Pain in Victorian England Lucy Bending on Victorian attitudes to pain. Pain and medieval medicine Fernando Salmón on pain and its spiritual and religious contexts in the Middle Ages. Pain and surgery in the early 1900s Michael Clark on ‘Unterschenkel-amputation’ - a 100-year-old film of an amputation.