Pain The Science of Suffering

Name: Pain The Science of Suffering
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ISBN: 9780231120067

ISBN-10: 0231120060

ISBN-13: 9780231120067

Edition: 2000

Authors: Patrick Wall, Patrick D. Wall

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Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or switch on for no apparent reason. Many scientists, philosophers, and laypeople imagine pain to operate like a rigid, simple signaling system, as if a particular injury generates a fixed amount of pain that simply gets transmitted to the brain; yet this mechanistic model is woefully lacking in the…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/18/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.23" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.066
Language: English



Preface



Private Pain and Public Display



The Philosophy of Pain



The Body Detects, the Brain Reacts



The Whole Body



A "Normal" Pain Response



Pains with Obvious Causes



Pain Without a Cause



How Treatments Work



The Placebo Response



Your Pain



Other People's Pain


Epilogue


Index