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Harvard University Press
Language
English
Pages
439

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Subjects
Pain, Psychology, Religious aspects, Spirituality, Cross-cultural studies, Psychological Adaptation, Psychological aspects, Cultural Characteristics, Pain, psychological aspects

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Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture (Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative)
January 15, 2008, Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Sarah Coakley
Opening remarks: pain and experience / Arthur Kleinman. Response: enabling strategies-a great problem is not enough / Anne Harrington
Deconstructing pain: a deterministic dissection of the molecular basis of pain / Clifford J. Woolf
Setting the stage for pain: allegorical tales from neuroscience / Howard L. Fields. Response: is pain differentially embodied? / Anne Harrington. Response: pain and the embodiment of culture / Elaine Scarry. Discussion: is there life left in the gate control theory? Discussion: the success of reductionism in pain treatment
Palliative or intensification? pain and Christian contemplation in the spirituality of the sixteenth-century Carmelites / Sarah Coakley
Pain and the suffering consciousness: the alleviation of suffering in Buddhist discourse / Luis O. Gómez. Response: the incommensurable richness of "experience" / Arthur Kleinman
Response: the theology of pain and suffering in the Jewish tradition / Jon D. Levenson. Discussion: the "relaxation response" Can it explain religious transformation? Discussion: reductionism and the separation of "suffering" and "pain". Discussion: the instrumentality of pain in Christianity and Buddhism
Voice, metaphysics, and community: pain and transformation in the Finnish-Karelian ritual lament / Elizabeth Tolbert
Music, trancing, and the absence of pain / Judith Becker. Response: music as ecstasy and music as trance / John C.M. Brust. Response: thinking about music and pain / Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Discussion: the presentation and representation of emotion in music. Discussion: neurobiological views of music, emotion, and the body. Discussion: ritual and expectation
Pain and humanity in the Confucian learning of the heart-and-mind / Tu Weiming. Response: reflections from psychiatry on emergent mind and empathy / Laurence J. Kirmayer
Painful memories: ritual and the transformation of community trauma / Jennifer Cole. Response: collective memory as a witness to collective pain / Stanley Tambiah. Discussion: pain, healing, and memory
Among schoolchildren: the use of body damage to express physical pain / Elaine Scarry
The poetics of anesthesia: representations of pain in the literatures of classical India / Martha Ann Selby. Response: doubleness, mātam, and Muharram drumming in South Asia / Richard K. Wolf. Discussion: the dislocation, representation, and communication of pain
On the cultural mediation of pain / Laurence J. Kirmayer. Discussion: the notion of face
The place of pain in the space of good and evil / Nicholas Wolterstorff. Response: the problem of action / Charles Hallisey
Afterword / Sarah Coakley.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, Mass
Genre
Cross-cultural studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616/.0472
Library of Congress
RB127 .P332142 2007

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Pagination
xii, 439 p. :
Number of pages
439

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19429150M
ISBN 10
0674024567
ISBN 13
9780674024564
LCCN
2007012985
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773429

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