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LEADER: 03947cam a22003858a 4500
001 2007012985
003 DLC
005 20070412105729.0
008 070327s2007 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007012985
020 $a9780674024564 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aRB127$b.P332142 2007
060 10 $aWL 704$bP144355 2007
082 00 $a616/.0472$222
245 00 $aPain and its transformations :$bthe interface of biology and culture /$cedited by Sarah Coakley, Kay Kaufman Shelemay.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2007.
263 $a0711
300 $ap. ;$ccm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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 --
505 0 $aPain 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, matam, 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.
650 0 $aPain$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aPain$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aPain$vCross-cultural studies.
650 12 $aPain$xpsychology.
650 22 $aAdaptation, Psychological.
650 22 $aCultural Characteristics.
650 22 $aSpirituality.
700 1 $aCoakley, Sarah,$d1951-
700 1 $aShelemay, Kay Kaufman.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012985.html