Transdermal Pain: A Sociocultural Perspective
Transdermal Pain: A Sociocultural Perspective David B. Morris “Chronic pain is a transdermal phenomenon and the environment is always a player in the chronic pain patient’s predicament.” —J. D. Loeser1…
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Litigation Involving Pain Management
Litigation Involving Pain Management Ben A. Rich In recent decades, issues arising in the context of pain management have increasingly been raised in the context of law and public policy….
Ethical Issues in the Care of Dying Patients
Ethical Issues in the Care of Dying Patients David Barnard Introduction THE QUEST FOR MORAL ORDER AMID EXISTENTIAL DISORDER To the dying person, his doctor, however much he is trusted…
Laws and Policies Affecting Pain Management in the United States
Laws and Policies Affecting Pain Management in the United States Aaron M. Gilson James F. Cleary Introduction PREVALENCE OF UNRELIEVED PAIN IS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM In The Mystery of…
Ethical Issues in Pain Management
Ethical Issues in Pain Management Ben A. Rich The fourth edition of this book was the first to include chapters specifically addressing the ethical dimensions of pain management. This is…
Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials Roger Chou Richard A. Deyo Controversies abound in the clinical management of pain, and there are enormous geographic variations in care. Lumbar spine surgery rates historically vary fivefold…
Individual Differences in Pain: The Roles of Gender, Ethnicity, and Genetics
Individual Differences in Pain: The Roles of Gender, Ethnicity, and Genetics Roger B. Fillingim The experience of pain is characterized by tremendous interindividual variability.1 Indeed, similar injuries, disease states, or…
Psychological Aspects of Pain
Psychological Aspects of Pain Dennis C. Turk Kimberly Shawn Swanson Hilary D. Wilson Advances in the knowledge of the neurophysiology of pain have resulted in the development of new pharmacologic…
Supraspinal Mechanisms of Pain and Nociception
Supraspinal Mechanisms of Pain and Nociception Michael Hauck Ürgen Lorenz The preceding chapters addressed the peripheral and spinal mechanisms of nociceptive processing. Neither normal nor pathologic pain can be understood…
Modulation of Spinal Nociceptive Processing
Modulation of Spinal Nociceptive Processing Timothy J. Ness Alan Randich Jennifer J. Deberry The preceding chapter addressed the neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of neurons located within the spinal cord that process…
