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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain
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- Published: December 2010
- ISBN: 978-1-4398363-0-9
- Publisher: CRC Press
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- Edited by James Giordano.
Whether initiated by injury or disease, induced and sustained by changes in the nervous system, or manifested by society and culture, chronic pain can change one’s first-person experience of the body and the world, and ultimately impacts cognitions, emotions, and behavior. Many fine medical books address the causes and management of chronic intractable pain, but rarely do they focus on the ways that such pain creates illness and is experienced and expressed by persons in pain.
Maldynia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain is about chronic pain that has progressed to a multidimensional illness state in and of itself. Although often dismissed as such, this pain is not imaginary, but rather represents an interaction of neurobiological processes, emotional and behavioral responses, and socio-cultural effects and reactions that become enduring elements in the life and world of the pain patient, and often remain enigmatic for those who provide care.
Taking a comprehensive approach that covers science, humanities, and culture, this volume emphasizes the need for researchers, clinicians, and caregivers to regard the ways in which chronic intractable pain becomes illness and affects a patient’s biological, social, and psychological states, as well as his or her sense of self. Edited by neuroscientist and neuroethicist James Giordano, this book contains 17 insightful chapters representing medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, ethics, history, art, and the ministry.
Table of Contents
Maldynia: The Illness of Chronic Pain, J. Giordano
A Short History of Pain and Its Treatment, A. Valadas
From Antiquity to the Medieval Age
From Renaissance to Enlightenment
The Nineteenth Century
Pain in the Twentieth Century
Pain Does Not Suffer Misprision: The Presence and Absence that is Pain, J.D. Katz
The Positive and Negative Attributes of Pain
The Phenomenology of Pain
A Humanistic Interpretation of Pain
Understanding Suffering: The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of the Experience of Illness and of Pain, P. Moskovitz
Perceptions, Emotions and the Experience of Suffering
Understanding Consciousness
Senses of Consciousness (after Edelman (22), Zeman (52) and others)
Consciousness as Wakefulness
Consciousness as the Experience of Perceptual Contents
Consciousness as Reportable Experience
Consciousness as Self-awareness
A Theory of Consciousness: How Consciousness and Awareness Happen
The Multiple Dimensions of Perceptual Contents
Modeling Consciousness – Creating a Diagram of the Body-Brain
A Linear Versus an Oscillatory Model of Consciousness
Loss That Evokes Grief and Threat That Evokes Fear
Unrelieved Appetites and Drive States
Pain
The Threshold of Suffering
Suffering: Shock, Stasis, and Dissociation
Resilience and Coping
Coping Skills: Connectedness
Coping Skills: Symbolic Representation
Coping Reactions: Disgust, Contempt and Anger
Belief Systems and Spirituality
The Outcomes and Products of Suffering
How (Can) I Feel Your Pain: The Problem of Empathy and Hermeneutics in Pain Care, G. Venuti
Care and Relation: Empathy for Another’s Pain
Empathy, Sympathy, Compassion: All Synonyms?
Spirituality, Suffering and the Self, J. Giordano and N.B. Kohls
Introduction
Pain, the "Self", and Spirituality
Support from Our Empirical Research
The Nature and Brief Anthropology of Spiritual and Religious Practices
Putative Neural Substrates of Spiritual Experience(s)
Patients’ Spirituality and Its Importance for the Clinical Practice of Medicine
Spirituality and Practical Pain Management
Conclusion
History of the Expression of Pain in Art, S. Karakas
Maldynia as Muse: A Recent Experiment in the Visual Arts and Medical Humanities, N. Carlin and T. Cole
Perceptions of Pain: The Essays
Looking at Pain
A Visual Language for Pain
Unspeakable Pain
Perceptions in Pain: The Art
The Process
Three Photographs: Interpretations
Contextualizing Perceptions of Pain
Conclusions and Recommendations
Padfield’s Call for Psychological Interpretations
Maldynia as Muse
Maldynic Pain in Image and Experience: Engraving Meaning through Subtraction, R. Covey
Musical Representations of Physical Pain, E. Peterson
Introduction
Pain and Language
Pain and Its Object
Music and Meaning
Music and Timbre
Music and Lyrics: Masochism Tango
Music as Absolute: Pacific 231
Film Music: Psycho
Classical Music: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Popular Music: Back to Back
Screaming as Music
Conclusion: Pushing Boundaries
Beyond Technology: Narrative in Pain Medicine, L. Galvagni
Narrative and Communication in the Experience of Pain as Illness
Narrative Medical Ethics
A Phenomenology of Pain as Illness
Embodiment
Temporality
Subjectivity
Metaphors and Images in the Experience of Pain as Illness
Psychological Assessment of Maldynic Pain: The Need for a Phenomenological Approach, M. Schatman
Introduction
The Importance of Phenomenologically Assessing the Chronic Pain Patient
The MMPI: A Tarnished "Gold Standard"
Unidimensional Assessment Tools
Multiscale Multidimensional Assessment Tools
The Strength and Meaning of the Clinical Interview
A "Patient-Centered" Approach to Assessment of Maldynic Pain Patients
Cross-Cultural Sensitivity
Conclusion
Painism- A New Ethics: Richard Ryder’s Moral Theory and Its Limitations, H. Werner-Ingensiep
Introduction
"Can they suffer?"
Ryder’s Painism: A Middle Way Between the Scylla of Utilitarianism and the Charybdis of Rights Theory?
Is Pain Necessary and/or Sufficient for Moral Status?
Painism and Sentientism
Hurting and Harming
Pain - The Only Evil?
Pain in Non-Human Others: Speciesism– Normative and Descriptive Dimensions
Species, individuals, and Pain
Painism – Some Applications and Questions
Painism and Biotechnology
Painism and Environmental Ethics
Painism and Plants
Painism and Euthanasia
Brain, Pain, PVS and Extreme Cases
Who is the "maximum sufferer"?
Concerning the "Vegetative Language" about Human Beings Beyond Sentience and Pain
Maldynia: Chronic Pain, Complexity and Complementarity, J. Giordano and M.V. Boswell
Introduction: A Complex Problem
Chronic Pain – A Spectrum Disorder?
A Call for Complementarity in Pain Care
Precipitating Change
Navigating the Technologic Trend
Realizing Complementarity in Practice
The Current Condition of Pain Care
Proposing a Future
An Ethical Stance
Conclusion: A Way Forward
A Clinical Ethics of Chronic Pain Management: Basis, Reason and Responsibilities, E. Pellegrino
On Pain, Briefly
The Moral Management of Pain as Illness
The Pain Patient
Ethical Obligations in Clinical Contexts
Children, Pain, and the Creation of Suffering: Toward an Ethic of Lamentation, C. Gomez
Finding the Words: A Patient’s Story
A Framework for Analysis
Chronic Pain and Language
Goal-Directed Health Care and the Chronic Pain Patient: A New Vision of the Healing Encounter, D. Waters and V. Sierpina
Goal-Directed Health Care (G-DHC)
G-DHC: A Background
Health Goals And Life Goals
Changing The Dialogue
A New Vision Of The Healing Encounter
Case 1
Case 2
The Problem of Pain and the Moral Formation of Physicians, F.D. Davis
Introduction
Pain, Illness, and the Ends of Medicine
The Culture of Medicine and the Moral De-Formation of Physicians
Patients, Pain, and Prospects for Change in the Culture of Medicine