Perspectives on pain : mapping the territory
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Perspectives on pain : mapping the territory
Arnold , Oxford University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is the first book of its kind to explore the many facets of pain from both a professional and personal perspective. An experienced group of pain experts, each committed to understanding pain, explores the psychological, spiritual, linguistic, feminist and cultural dimensions of pain, as well as looking at the management of pain and the specific training that is available to promote better practice. Several contributors present moving accounts of their own experiences of pain, providing valuable insight for the reader.
This text will stimulate the reader to consider and reflect on the many aspects of pain and will aid their understanding of the experience and the concept of pain itself. It will be essential reading for all postgraduate medical, physiotherapy and psychology students and any health care professionals who care for patients in pain. It will also be relevant for all final year nursing, community health and health studies undergraduates, and those students taking Pain Management and Palliative Care courses.
Table of Contents
Pain lashes out: a personal story of pain
The pains of living with an artificial limb
Talking about pain
Effective pain management: is empathy relevant?
Cultural dimensions of pain
Researching pain: paradigms and revolutions
Psychotherapy, fetal memory and pain
Counselling and the management of chronic pain
Pain a feminist issue?
Suffering, emotion & pain: towards a sociological understanding
Pain management: training and education issues
Organising pain management
Developing best practice through comparison and sharing
The prevention of chronic pain
Child assent, consent and refusal of painful procedures
Children and their experience of pain
Young people and acute pain
Pain in later life
Fibromyalgia and pain
Shoulder pain in hemiplegia
Constructive management of cardiac pain
The pain of withdrawing from illicit heroin use.
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