tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65578302024-03-13T11:17:40.397-04:00Pain for Philosophers"You've by now no doubt discovered my abiding interest in pain. I'm presently writing the definitive work on the subject." --The Princess BrideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger328125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-55924462223111473882017-05-03T18:53:00.000-04:002017-05-03T18:53:22.494-04:00Blast from the past: Addiction fears and palliative care Recalled without comment...
November 25, 2003
The Delicate Balance Of Pain and Addiction
By BARRY MEIER
Over the past two decades, conflicting medical ideas have surfaced about narcotic painkillers, the drugs that Rush Limbaugh blames for his addiction while being treated for chronic back pain. And both of them, not surprisingly, have centered on the bottom-line question: just how great aUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-45791084907475584162017-02-17T00:30:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:32:55.453-04:00Stoics on painBrennan describes the Stoic conception of pain as one of the four basic kinds of emotion:
Pain is an opinion that some present thing is a bad of such a sort that we should be downcast about it.
[Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, p.270]
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-41258794647692958392017-02-07T03:03:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:31:56.463-04:00Why so little attention to physical evil?One hypothesis on why Medieval and other early writers ignore pain to a large degree:
In these centuries...prior to the development of medicine and its pain-killing or controlling drugs, and when very severe penalties, imposed by Church and State alike, were commonly acceptable, the problems of physical evil do not appear to have been taken as seriously as they are by contemporary thinkers. [Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-30870504754193450782017-01-04T00:00:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:27:03.410-04:00Doonsbury on pain medication
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/asap/db(1).gifUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-63988787628423410852016-11-19T18:00:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:14:28.796-04:00Abnormal sensory statesFrom the IASP, a helpful summary of some of the terms which describe altered thresholds, responses, and perceptions of pain:
Allodynia: lowered threshold: stimulus and response mode differ
Hyperalgesia: increased response: stimulus and response mode are the same
Hyperpathia: raised threshold: stimulus and response mode may be the increased response: same or different
Hypoalgesia: raised Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-42398851152585548322016-10-05T14:17:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:09:55.639-04:00More on pain rating scales, xkcd weighs inFollowing up on Hyperbole and a Half's critique of the Wong-Baker Scale, xkcd weighs in on anchors of common assessment scales. His mouseover caption presses the point: "If it were a two or above, I couldn't answer because it would mean a pause in the screaming."This reminds me of a conversation with a friend about the pragmatics of rating the pain which brought you to the doctor's office. Our Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-6986770028901677172016-08-10T10:00:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:23:01.721-04:00Catrastrophizing in pain paper
Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, OnlineEarly Articles (Article Abstract)
Jo Nijs PhD, Karen Van de Putte MSc, Fred Louckx PhD, Steven Truijen PhD, Kenny De Meirleir PhD (2007)
Exercise Performance and Chronic Pain in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Role of Pain Catastrophizing
doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00368.x
Exercise Performance and Chronic Pain in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Role of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-56853000816334192822016-05-28T10:45:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:08:14.353-04:00The Almost Discovery Of Anesthesia : NPRHere's an NPR story on the discovery of nitrous oxide. The transcript and podcast are here: No, Thank You; We Like Pain: The Almost Discovery Of Anesthesia : NPRToday's Quantified Self practitioners take note, you've got nothing on young Humphry Davy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-76353654087900781102016-03-07T16:25:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:25:20.377-04:00Placebo ethics related papers
ScienceDirect - Pain : Don’t ask, Don’t tell? Revealing placebo responses to research participants and patients
An NIMH perspective on the use of placebosBiological Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry, Volume 47, Issue 8, 15 April 2000, Pages 689-691Steven E. Hyman and David Shore
The placebo in modern medicine
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Part 1, 1996, Pages 76-79
Stephen EUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-52813315064847479582015-12-14T22:20:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:11:10.897-04:00Blast from the pastFrom Time Magazine
Ouch!
Monday, Jan. 01, 1945
People like Dickens' Mrs. Gummidge, who claim they "feel more than other people do," will have a chance to prove it in the future. For Cleveland's Dr. Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-24876417231726470782015-09-20T00:30:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:53:53.526-04:00NYT on chronic painDecember 16, 2001
Pain, the Disease
By MELANIE THERNSTROM
A modern chronicler of hell might look to the lives of chronic-pain patients for inspiration. Theirs is a special suffering, a separate chamber, the dimensions of which materialize at the New England Medical Center pain clinic in downtown Boston. Inside the cement tower, all sights and sounds of the neighborhood -- the swans in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-22659839772831507982015-06-06T16:55:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:56:00.589-04:00Pain proverbsNeque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit . . . ("There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain . . .").
Pain mingles with pleasure.
Source: (Latin)
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Source: (Latin)
Pain past is pleasure.
Source: (Latin)
http://www.worldofquotes.com/proverb/Latin/Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-45546420972839418842015-02-04T21:54:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:21:31.393-04:00Hospice and opioids paper
Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 320-329, July/August 2006 (Article Abstract)
Toward Evidence-Based Prescribing at End of Life: A Comparative Analysis of Sustained-Release Morphine, Oxycodone, and Transdermal Fentanyl, with Pain, Constipation, and Caregiver Interaction Outcomes in Hospice Patients
Poster presented during the 20th annual meeting of the American AcademyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-56888986262803482472015-01-06T08:00:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:15:24.290-04:00Religion and sickle cell pain
Title:Religiosity/spirituality and pain in patients with sickle cell disease.(Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (193))(Brief article).
Author(s):M.O. Harrison, C.L. Edwards and H.G. Koenig.
Source:Pain Digest 16.2 (March-April 2006): p106(1). (175 words)
Document Type:Magazine/Journal
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Examination of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-46284678249397006022014-12-17T19:02:00.000-05:002017-05-03T19:02:52.899-04:00The Clinical Art of Pain Medicine: Balancing Evidence, Experience, Ethics, and Policy
Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 6 Issue 4 Page 277-279, July 2005 (Full Text)
The Clinical Art of Pain Medicine: Balancing Evidence, Experience, Ethics, and Policy
* Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH
Editor-in-Chief
Efficacy, effectiveness, morbidity risks, and costs are four metrics that inform our conscious clinical reasoning about treatment for each patient. These metrics also informUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-43593233608635367342014-12-02T14:00:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:20:06.595-04:00More links: Racial and ethnic disparities in pain
Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 5-10, January 2005 (Article Abstract)
Pain Medicine
Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 5-10, January 2005
Louis W. Sullivan MD, Barry A. Eagel MD (2005) Leveling the Playing Field: Recognizing and Rectifying Disparities in Management of Pain
Pain Medicine 6 (1) , 5–10 doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2005.05016.x
Salimah H.Meghani, MSN, CRNP, Doctoral Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-26944376474512283792014-11-21T16:16:00.000-05:002017-05-03T16:17:02.116-04:00Some links: Racial and ethnic disparities in pain
Race, Ethnicity, and Pain Treatment: Striving to Understand the Causes and Solutions to the Disparities in Pain Treatment
Vence L. Bonham
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Volume 28, Issue s4, Page 52-68, Mar 2001, doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2001.tb00039.x
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Disparities in Pain: Ethical Issues
Carmen Green, MD, Knox H. Todd, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-88839750483441160532014-06-30T18:07:00.000-04:002014-06-30T18:07:10.086-04:00Please help with a study on pain patient narrativesIf you have a few minutes, I would greatly appreciate your help with a research project I am involved in. We need people to fill out an online survey.
This survey is part of a project studying how pain patient narratives are perceived by others and how these stories impact their treatment. The University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus Institutional Review Board has determined thatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-26058048965500663942014-05-31T21:30:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:52:02.039-04:00Pain and patience
Eighteenth Century Collections Online -- Search Display
Dodsley, Robert. Pain and patience. A poem. By R. Dodsley. London, 1742 [1743]. 12pp. Literature and Language
Source Citation: Dodsley, Robert. Pain and patience. A poem. By R. Dodsley. London, 1742 [1743]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO
Gale Document Number: CW3310212522
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-80646212452778160662014-03-30T00:30:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:55:27.923-04:00Pain Patient's Bill of Rights (CA)SB 402 Health: opiate drugs.
BILL NUMBER: SB 402 CHAPTERED 10/10/97 BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 839
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 10, 1997
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 9, 1997
PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 5, 1997
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 2, 1997
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 28, 1997
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 22, 1997
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 30, 1997
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 24, 1997
AMENDED INUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-5418972590519639172014-03-03T18:58:00.000-05:002017-05-03T18:58:20.450-04:00More Augustine on privationFrom Against the Epistle of Manichaeus
For who can doubt that the whole of that which is called evil is nothing else than
corruption? Different evils may, indeed, be called by different names; but that which
is the evil of all things in which any evil is perceptible is corruption. So the corruption
of the educated mind is ignorance: the corruption of the prudent mind is imprudence;
the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-86319694543322752792013-10-21T00:30:00.000-04:002017-05-03T16:31:15.382-04:00Symptom Clusters: Pain, Depression, and Fatigue
JNCI Monographs 2004 2004(32):119-123; doi:10.1093/jncimonographs/lgh028
Abstract
There is not yet sufficient evidence-based experience for the coordinated treatment of three symptoms that cluster in cancer: pain, depression, and fatigue. Each symptom taken individually has accepted treatment modalities. With some overlap between these symptoms, established treatments for one symptom may "Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-14972791939575097852013-10-07T18:56:00.000-04:002017-05-03T18:57:06.282-04:00Pain care for the world's poorThe New York Times
September 10, 2007Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
WATERLOO, Sierra Leone — Although the rainy season was coming on fast, Zainabu Sesay was in no shape to help her husband. Ditches had to be dug to protect their cassava and peanuts, and their mud hut’s palm roof was sliding off.
But Mrs. Sesay was sick. She had breast cancer in a form Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-75375667264223925782013-07-01T17:40:00.001-04:002013-07-01T17:40:00.702-04:00Preferring more pain to lessIn his recent Why feeling more pain may be better for you, Tom Stafford reminds us of the classic Kahneman study which yielded both the Peak End rule and succor to sadistic proctologists.If that description didn't tempt you to go read the column, here's the super short version: Kahneman found that when asked how bad a painful experience was, people recall (roughly) the average of how bad it was Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557830.post-18387687906780537772013-04-12T18:19:00.001-04:002013-04-12T18:19:13.705-04:00Digital Humanities SoCal Research SlamFor those in Southern California…..DH SoCal Research SlamLocation: California State University, NorthridgeDate: May 4, 2013Deadline: April 15, 2013DH SoCal is a network dedicated to building community and collaboration amongst digital humanists in Southern California. On May 4, 2013 we are holding our first research slam at California State University, Northridge. This one-day event will be Unknownnoreply@blogger.com