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JOANNA BOURKE

Blogs
Here are my latest blogs! Enjoy.


Feb 5, 202423 min read
A (Very Short) History of Pain
Pain is a phantom, a spectre that haunts clinical encounters. Physical suffering is the chief symptom impelling people to seek medical...
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Feb 5, 202428 min read
Tuberculosis: A History
What does tuberculosis look like? If we are thinking about the early-nineteenth century, we might imagine an emaciated, white, male...
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Jan 3, 20247 min read
Headache: A History
In 1964, author and critic Susan Sontag published a little-known short story entitled ‘Man with a Pain’. It is an eloquent reflection not...
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