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Maldynia
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain
By James Giordano (Edited by)

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United Kingdom, 19 September 2019

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.

This exceptional volume also looks at representations of pain in and through the arts, addresses the assignation of values and meaning in pain assessment and treatment, and considers ways to conjoin the sciences and humanities so as to inform the practice of pain medicine and improve the care of those suffering the illness of chronic pain.

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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.

This exceptional volume also looks at representations of pain in and through the arts, addresses the assignation of values and meaning in pain assessment and treatment, and considers ways to conjoin the sciences and humanities so as to inform the practice of pain medicine and improve the care of those suffering the illness of chronic pain.

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9780367383251
ISBN
036738325X
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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 centimetres (0.53 kg)

Table of Contents

Maldynia: The Illness of Chronic Pain. A Short History of Pain and Its Treatment. Pain Does Not Suffer Misprision: The Presence and Absence that is Pain. Understanding Suffering: The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of the Experience of Illness and of Pain. How (Can) I Feel Your Pain: The Problem of Empathy and Hermeneutics in Pain Care. Spirituality, Suffering and the Self. History of the Expression of Pain in Art. Maldynia as Muse: A Recent Experiment in the Visual Arts and Medical Humanities,. Maldynic Pain in Image and Experience: Engraving Meaning through Subtraction. Musical Representations of Physical Pain. Beyond Technology: Narrative in Pain Medicine. Psychological Assessment of Maldynic Pain: The Need for a Phenomenological Approach. Painism- A New Ethics: Richard Ryder’s Moral Theory and Its Limitations. Maldynia: Chronic Pain, Complexity and Complementarity. A Clinical Ethics of Chronic Pain Management: Basis, Reason and Responsibilities. Children, Pain, and the Creation of Suffering: Toward an Ethic of Lamentation. Goal-Directed Health Care and the Chronic Pain Patient: A New Vision of the Healing Encounter. The Problem of Pain and the Moral Formation of Physicians.

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James Giordano

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