Perspectives on Pain Mapping the Territory

by Carter, Bernadette

• ISBN13: 9780340692547
• ISBN10: 0340692545
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-25
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

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 specialists, each committed to understanding pain, explore 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 careprofessionals 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

List of contributors	v
Foreword: mapping the territory	vii
Pain lashes out: a personal story of pain	1	(17)
Judith Thwaite
The pains of living with an artificial limb	18	(8)
Claire L. Carter
Talking about pain	26	(20)
Marion V. Smith
Effective pain management: is empathy relevant?	46	(20)
Judith H. Watt-Watson
Cultural dimensions of pain	66	(18)
Bryn D. Davis
Researching pain: paradigms and revolutions	84	(14)
Bernadette Carter
Psychotherapy, fetal memory and pain	98	(11)
Chris Sparks
Counselling in the management of chronic pain	109	(9)
Beatrice Sofaer
Pain: a feminist perspective?	118	(9)
Angela Cotton
Suffering, emotion and pain: towards a sociological understanding	127	(15)
Eileen Fairhurst
Pain management: training and education issues	142	(11)
J. Edmond Charlton
Organizing acute pain management	153	(18)
Ramon Carlo Pediani
Developing best practice through comparison and sharing	171	(15)
Judith Ellis
The prevention of chronic pain	186	(9)
Richard G. Potter
Child assent, consent and the refusal of painful procedures	195	(11)
Marilyn Persson
David Bunting
Children and their experience of pain	206	(25)
Bernadette Carter
Young people and acute pain	231	(12)
Marjorie L. Gillies
Pain in later life	243	(21)
Trevor M. Corran
Beatrice Melita
Fibromyalgia and pain	264	(14)
Angela R. Vale
Shoulder pain in hemiplegia	278	(16)
Christine Elizabeth Brown
Constructive management of cardiac pain	294	(12)
Michael Lappin
The pain of withdrawing from illicit heroin use	306
Stephen Cromey