Amputation, childbirth, torture, masochism, and sadism are to be explored in a major new exhibition about pain at London's Science Museum. The new exhibition, Pain: Passion, Compassion, Sensibility is a collaboration between The Wellcome Trust and the Science Museum and has been curated by the leading Spanish philosopher, Javier Moscoso.
Pain features over 170 objects and artworks - many rare and unseen - from the original collections of Sir Henry Wellcome, including the tooth of an Egyptian ghoul said to cure neck pain; a Victorian head perforator; Lord Lister's apparatus for application per rectum; 18th century German dental forceps; a carved wooden decapitated head; a 17th century German execution mask; torture equipment and a 16th century thumb screw.
Pain explores the changing cultural place of pain and the role of science in shaping our beliefs, from visual and verbal representations, medical attempts to deal with pain, examinations of modern and contemporary theories about the nature of pain and a look into our reactions to the pain of others.
Date: 13 February - 20 June 2004
Venue: 1st Floor, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD
Pre-Booking Line: 0870 870 4868
Admission Free
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