How many speed bumps?
Gavin Francis: Pain, 21 August 2014
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
by Joanna Bourke.
Oxford, 396 pp., £20, June 2014,978 0 19 968942 2 Show More
by Joanna Bourke.
Oxford, 396 pp., £20, June 2014,
“... Mr Lagnari knew that he was dying. His wife and son opened the door before I had a chance to ring the bell. They made way for me in the tiny vestibule, their faces pinched with worry. ‘He’s more settled now,’ the son whispered, anxious that his father might overhear, ‘but he thinks his number’s up.’ I nodded: his impressions might be more ... ”