Max
05-06-2004, 08:24 PM
Pain and prejudice
by Dr Stuart Derbyshire
Managing pain has been a key goal for medicine over history. As our understanding has developed, theories have shifted away from an emphasis upon the nature of pain as a purely physical response to injury, towards an appreciation of the broader social and cultural factors that shape an individual's experience of pain.
This helps to account for the fact that, in certain circumstances, individuals with severe and traumatic injuries apparently experience surprisingly little pain, while in others, individuals with no apparent physical malady apparently experience a great deal of pain.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CA50E.htm
by Dr Stuart Derbyshire
Managing pain has been a key goal for medicine over history. As our understanding has developed, theories have shifted away from an emphasis upon the nature of pain as a purely physical response to injury, towards an appreciation of the broader social and cultural factors that shape an individual's experience of pain.
This helps to account for the fact that, in certain circumstances, individuals with severe and traumatic injuries apparently experience surprisingly little pain, while in others, individuals with no apparent physical malady apparently experience a great deal of pain.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CA50E.htm