Maldynia

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain

James Giordano

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040220344
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Psychiatry & Mental Health

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 intract

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Editor
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 Maldynia—The Illness of Chronic Pain
• Chapter 2 A Short History of Pain and Its Treatment
• Chapter 3 Pain Does Not Suffer Misprision the Presence and Absence That is Pain*
• Chapter 4 Understanding Suffering the Phenomenology and Neurobiology of the Experience of Illness and Pain*
• Chapter 5 How (Can) I Feel Your Pain the Problem of Empathy and Hermeneutics in Pain Care
• Chapter 6 Spirituality, Suffering, and the Self*
• Chapter 7 Expressions of Chronic Pain and Suffering in Western Art
• Chapter 8 Maldynia as Muse A Recent Experiment in the Visual Arts and Medical Humanities
• Chapter 9 Maldynic Pain in Image and Experience Engraving Meaning through Subtraction
• Chapter 10 Musical Representations of Physical Pain
• Chapter 11 Beyond Technology Narrative in Pain Medicine
• Chapter 12 Psychological Assessment of Maldynic Pain the Need for a Phenomenological Approach
• Chapter 13 Painism—A New Ethics Richard Ryder’s Moral Theory and Its Limitations
• Chapter 14 Maldynia Chronic Pain, Complexity, and Complementarity*
• Chapter 15 A Clinical Ethics of Chronic Pain Management Basis, Reason, and Responsibilities
• Chapter 16 Children, Maldynic Pain, and the Creation of Suffering Toward an Ethic of Lamentation
• Chapter 17 Goal-Directed Health Care and the Chronic Pain Patient A New Vision of the Healing Encounter*
• Chapter 18 The Problem of Pain and the Moral Formation of Physicians