Overview
- First book devoted to study of the meanings of pain
- Explains why meaning is important in the way that pain is felt
- Promotes integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods to study meanings of pain
- Includes insights that can aid in the clinical management of patients with pain
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
All pain research and medicine inevitably have to negotiate how pain is perceived, how meanings of pain can be described within the fabric of a person’s life and neurophysiology, what factors mediate them, how they interact and change over time, and how the relationship between patient, researcher, and clinician might be understood in terms of meaning.
Though meanings of pain are not intensively studied in contemporary painresearch or thoroughly described as part of clinical assessment, no pain researcher or clinician can avoid asking questions about how pain is perceived or the types of data and scientific methods relevant in discovering the answers.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
He is coeditor of the 2015 Springer title "Machine Medical Ethics," Vol. 74 in the series "Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering," ISBN 978-3-319-08108-3.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Meanings of Pain
Editors: Simon van Rysewyk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49022-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49021-2Published: 20 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84069-7Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49022-9Published: 07 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 401
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Pain Medicine, Phenomenology, Clinical Psychology