Chronic pain affects every facet of a patient's life, and nowhere is this more evident than in the complex arena of family life. "Chronic Pain and Family: a Clinical Perspective" examines typical family issues associated with prolonged illness, offering realistic ways to approac…
Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new field of pain medicine has evolve…
The author explores the changing rhetoric of pain medicine and how this rhetoric ultimately shapes the health-care community's understanding of what pain medicine is, how the medicine should be practiced and regulated, and how practitioner-patient relationships are best managed.…
Based on fieldwork in a pain treatment center, "Camp Pain" focuses on patients' perspectives-on their experiences of pain and what these experiences mean to them
Pain: the science of suffering
by Wall, Patrick D., (Patrick David)
fromMaps of the mind
"Pain involves our state of mind, our social mores and beliefs, and our personal experiences and expectations. Stepping beyond the famous neurologic gate-control theory for which he is known, Wall show that pain is a matter of behavior and its manifestation differs among individ…
Pain: the science of suffering
by Wall, Patrick D., (Patrick David)
fromMaps of the mind
"Pain involves our state of mind, our social mores and beliefs, and our personal experiences and expectations. Stepping beyond the famous neurologic gate-control theory for which he is known, Wall show that pain is a matter of behavior and its manifestation differs among individ…
"There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but …
"Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex understanding along with p…
"Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex understanding along with p…
Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this …
Everyone knows what it feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this …