A reconsideration of our treatment and understanding of pain and suffering in all its forms, and approaches to its relief and management. Keynote speakers from the British Pain Society explore innovative approaches to pain management, recentring the importance of healing within the biomedicine-dominated field of pain medicine.
Über den Autor
Peter Wemyss-Gorman has over 25 years' experience of treating pain, and trying to help patients to live well with pain he had all too often failed to relieve. He established the Pain Clinic and Pain Management Programme at the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, and was the co-founder of the BPS Philosophy and Ethics SIG in 2001.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1. Pain and Placebo; Suffering, Caring and Healing.
Paul Dieppe
2 Healing from within - the use of hypnotic techniques in chronic
pain management
Ann Williamson
3. Suffering As A Guiding Call Towards Transformative Change
David Reilly
4. "Guerir quelquefois, Soulager souvent, Consoler toujours"
Raanan Gillon
5. Pain, breathlessness and disability: a phenomenological
analysis
Havi Carel
6. "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you": the problem
of pain
Tom Shakespeare
7. Pain Signals and other bad language
Betsan Corkhill
8 Healing the pain of a wounded soul
Jeremy Swayne
9. Suffering and the world's religions: the search for meaning in
pain
Peter Wemyss-Gorman
10. Ethnic and Cultural Effects on Pain Assessment and
Management
Jonathan Koffman
12. Why the opioid epidemic?
John Loeser
13 . Therapeutic Knitting to Facilitate Change
Betsan Corkhill
14. The real experience of pain - first-hand accounts
Bryan Vernon
Klappentext
A reconsideration of our treatment and understanding of pain and suffering in all its forms, and approaches to its relief and management. Keynote speakers from the British Pain Society explore innovative approaches to pain management, recentring the importance of healing within the biomedicine-dominated field of pain medicine.
