Pain: Science, medicine, history, culture We all experience pain, but we all experience our own form of pain. It is a peculiarly subjective sensation, with an almost infinite variety of forms. Paradoxically, while we all know pain, it almost defies definition. This site explores the studies of pain and its impact on human life and provides the latest thinking on the many aspects of pain and its treatment. SCIENCE Sensing damage John Wood and colleagues on the mechanisms of pain detection. MEDICINE Cognitive behavioural approaches to chronic pain Charles Pither on the benefits of psychological and physical therapies for chronic pain relief. HISTORY Pain in Victorian England Victorian attitudes to pain CULTURE Pain and deliberate self-harm Michaela Swales explores the physical and emotional pain of self-harm.

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