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We are keen to exchange knowledge and ideas with academic researchers working on any aspect of bodily pain, whether from an historical or a contemporary perspective.

Please contact us at: painproject@bbk.ac.uk or join our mailing list by subscribing to the Birkbeck Pain Project at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk.

The Birkbeck Pain Project
Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology
Birkbeck College
28 Russell Square
London WC1E 7HX

An unconscious naked man lying on a table being
attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments,
symbolising the effects of chloroform on the human body.
Watercolour by R. Cooper. c. 1912.