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Lucy Bending on the BBC

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Cindy

Lucy will be speaking on the R4 programme, ‘The Language of Pain’, this Saturday, 2nd May, at 8pm. She plans to talk about Fanny Burney’s account of her mastectomy, carried out before the invention of anaesthetics, and Alphonse Daudet’s metaphors … Continue reading →

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Rhetorics of Pain: Historical Reflections

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Cindy

Dr Lucy Bending has been involved in  The Birkbeck Pain Project & Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities event Rhetorics of Pain: Historical Reflections You can now listen to the event here: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/05/lucy-bending-translating-pain-overcoming-the-ineffability-of-pain/

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Dr Lucy Bending: ‘The ineffability of pain’

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Cindy

Dr Lucy Bending has given a talk on ‘The Ineffability of Pain’ at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, as part of the ‘Birkbeck Pain Project’. To hear the talk: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/05/lucy-bending-translating-pain-overcoming-the-ineffability-of-pain/  

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