The Experiential Paradoxes of Pain.
Pain is far more than an aversive sensation. Chronic pain, in particular, involves the sufferer in a complex experience filled with ambiguity and paradox. The tensions thereby established, the unknowns, pressures, and oscillations, form a significant part of the painfulness of pain. This paper uses...
| Published in: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 41; no. 5; pp. 444 - 461 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2016
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=117905014&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 117905014 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03605310 MPS jtl: Journal of Medicine & Philosophy issn: 03605310 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2016 vid: 41 iid: 5 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 117905014 10.1093/jmp/jhw020 ppf: 444 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 469KB tig: atl: The Experiential Paradoxes of Pain. aug: au: LEDER, DREW affil: Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA su: Chronic pain Chronic diseases Pain management Pain tolerance Paradox Chronic pain & psychology Pain & psychology Labor productivity Self-perception Time Uncertainty sug: subj: Chronic pain Chronic diseases Pain management Pain tolerance Paradox Chronic pain & psychology Pain & psychology Labor productivity Self-perception Time Uncertainty keyword: embodiment illness pain phenomenology ab: Pain is far more than an aversive sensation. Chronic pain, in particular, involves the sufferer in a complex experience filled with ambiguity and paradox. The tensions thereby established, the unknowns, pressures, and oscillations, form a significant part of the painfulness of pain. This paper uses a phenomenological method to examine nine such paradoxes. For example, pain can be both immediate sensation and mediated by complex interpretations. It is a certainty for the experiencer, yet highly uncertain in character. It pulls one to the present but also projects one outward to a feared or desired future. Chronic pain can seem located in the body and/or mind; interior to the self, or an alien other; confined to a particular point and/or radiating everywhere. Such fundamental paradoxes, existential and epistemological, can challenge those living with long-term pain. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: © 2019 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Inc.. item: Journal of Medicine & Philosophy holder: Oxford University Press / USA dt: @attributes: year: 2016 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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