Pain for Philosophers

By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press Writer December 26,2005 | ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- For someone mired in judicial purgatory, Superior Court Jud...

I've railed about acetaminophen here before. It really is ugly: People who just need more pain-relief; attempted suicides (often first-a...

For you new readers of PFP, let me entice you with my two favorite (apparent) facts about pain: Pain hurts less when it is inflicted by a wo...

Here's a very, very, very good blog on pain: www.painonline.com Hope posting this doesn't drive me out of business. Categories: Reso...

From Wired: Pain can be mysterious, untreatable and debilitating, and its causes can be unknown. But if you could see the pain -- or, at lea...

Just found this website on pain geared toward patients: http://pain.healthcentersonline.com/ Haven't looked into who underwrites it so c...

[ed: I'm going to post new stuff below the welcome post for a bit. Thus some articles will magically appear in posts before they were wr...

A number of cases have been reported in which patients are said to have damaged or destroyed areas of body afflicted by neuropathic pain and...

From a very nice overview of the research on the subject: 5. Congenital indifference to pain With these insights into the basis of pain ...

In my dissertation I argue that the traditional account of pain's intrinsic badness --i.e., pain is bad because disliked; because unplea...

Abstract: Features of acute pain were examined in patients at an emergency clinic. Patients who had severe, life-threatening injuries or who...

The pathophysiological mechanism of pain in patients with bone metastases in the absence of a fracture is poorly understood. The presence of...

Interesting... Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare clinical syndrome characterized by dramatic impairment of pain perception si...

Advanced dementia patients may be at substantial risk for undetected or undertreated pain. To examine the treatment of pain following hip pr...

Let's see. I'm (a) writing a dissertation; (b) writing a dissertation on pain; and (c), not leaving the house enough. Sounds about r...

Now pain REALLY can't be C-fibers firing... We all know that if you put your hand over an open flame it's very painful. What you may...

Ok, so its not strictly about pain, but there are many important connections between disorders like bulimia and self-injurious behaviour (SI...

From the Economist . Men and women seem to perceive pain in different ways. That may mean they sometimes need different pain-relief drugs MA...

MONTREAL 27 July 2005--Scientists at the MUHC have made progress in understanding what causes migraines. The research, published in the new ...

What is the difference between heroin and ordinary medical morphine? "Morphine" as it is commonly referred to, is morphine sulf...

As a followup to the last post. Here's an earlier comment from Lindsay. I mentioned this here . NYT article There's been a lot of ta...

I've mentioned cases like this before. Its nice to see it broached so directly in a major newspaper. The New York Times July 19, 2005 P...

A roundup of recent developments. Categories: Legal

There has been no doubt for a good long while that accupuncture does have analgesic effects on certain types of pain. Though, as in the last...

Of course, you, diligent reader of PFP, already knew all this, right? Women feel the pain more than men Women feel pain more than men, more ...