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Meanings of Pain
Simon Van Rysewyk (Ed.)
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Description for Meanings of Pain
Hardback. Editor(s): Van Rysewyk, Simon. Num Pages: 401 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 13 colour illustrations, 20 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; MMBP; MMJ; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 802.
Although pain is widely recognized by clinicians and researchers as an experience, pain is always felt in a patient-specific way rather than experienced for what it objectively is, making perceived meaning important in the study of pain. The book contributors explain why meaning is important in the way that pain is felt and promote the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods to study meanings of pain. For the first time in a book, the study of the meanings of pain is given the attention it deserves. All pain research and medicine inevitably have to negotiate how pain is perceived, ... Read more
Although pain is widely recognized by clinicians and researchers as an experience, pain is always felt in a patient-specific way rather than experienced for what it objectively is, making perceived meaning important in the study of pain. The book contributors explain why meaning is important in the way that pain is felt and promote the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods to study meanings of pain. For the first time in a book, the study of the meanings of pain is given the attention it deserves. All pain research and medicine inevitably have to negotiate how pain is perceived, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
802g
Number of Pages
401
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319490212
SKU
V9783319490212
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Ref
99-15
About Simon Van Rysewyk (Ed.)
Simon van Rysewyk is a University Associate in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tasmania in 2013, and from 2013 to 2014 he was a Taiwan National Science Council Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Brain and Consciousness Research Center and Graduate Institute ... Read more
Reviews for Meanings of Pain
Meanings of Pain offers an intriguing investigation into the implications of the psychological, sociological, and personal lived meanings of pain for the overall management of patients struggling with this chronic condition. ... it may prove invaluable to the physician struggling to understand the intricacies of the patient pain experience, facilitating improved comprehensive pain therapy. (Emily E. Smith-Straesser and Amanda ... Read more