Pain and Suffering

by Livingston, William K.; Fields, Howard L.

• ISBN13: 9780931092244
• ISBN10: 0931092248
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Intl Assn for the Study of Pain

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Historical Note	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introductory Note	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Interpretive Background for a Concept of Pain	p. 7
Opening a Colostomy	p. 11
The Problem of Visceral Sensibility	p. 17
The Adequate Stimulus for True Visceral Pain	p. 25
"Visceral Pain" from Peripheral Blood Vessels	p. 31
Studies of Visceral Nerve Function	p. 41
Irritative Nerve Lesions	p. 49
Glomus Tumors	p. 59
Phantom Limb Pain	p. 69
The Mirror Image	p. 79
Tentative Interpretations	p. 87
Missile Wounds of Nerves	p. 93
A Case of Major Causalgia	p. 103
Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Causalgia	p. 111
Procaine and Nitrous Oxide "Analgesia"	p. 119
Hypnosis	p. 129
The Pain Project	p. 139
Seminar 1: The Philosophers and Johannes Muller	p. 145
Seminar 2: The "Reticular Formation"	p. 155
Seminar 3: Two Blind Alleys (Nerve Irritation and "Zombies")	p. 163
Seminar 4: Tracing Tooth-Pulp Responses into the Cat Brain	p. 171
Seminar 5: The Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System	p. 181
Habituation	p. 189
Appetitive Systems in the Brain	p. 197
Pulling the Picture Together	p. 205
Interpretations and Speculation	p. 217
Appendices	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 245
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