biological view of pain
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
blankness of pain
blood clots
bloodletting
bone spurs
Bonica, John J.
Boston Society for Medical Improvement
Botox
Braid, James
brain; alternative medicine and; anesthesia of belief; atrophy; depression and; effect of prolonged pain on; hypnosis and; imaging (see also functional magnetic resonance imaging); neuroimaging therapy; “pain center” in; pain perception and pain modulation; placebo effect and; stem; tumors
breast cancer
Breitbart, William
Brontë, Charlotte
Buddhism
bullet wounds
Burke, Lee
Burney, Fanny
burning pain
burns
Bush, George W.; torture policy of
Bushnell, Dr. Catherine
C
caffeine, effect on migraines of
California, pain management and
cancer; breast; chemotherapy; pain relief; religion and; surgical pain syndromes
cannabis; see also marijuana
capital punishment
capsaicin
cardiac ablation
carpal tunnel syndrome
Carr, Dr. Daniel
Cassell, Dr. Eric J., The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
cataract surgery
cauterizing wounds
Celebrex
cellular secret of chronic pain cycle
central nervous system
central sensitization
Cepeda, Dr. M. Soledad
cervical collar
cervical spondylosis
C fibers
Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales
Cheever, Susan
Chekhov, Anton
chemotherapy
childbirth; anesthesia in; fistulas; pain and; rheumatoid arthritis and
children; impact of pain on; pain sensitivity; sexually abused
Children’s Hospital, Boston
chimera
China; surgery with acupuncture in
chiropractic
chloroform
cholecystokinin
Christianity; anesthesia and; Jesus’ pain and; martyrdom; mortality and; Victorian
Christian Science
chronic pain; definition of; as disease (see disease, pain as); effect on brain; genetic influences on; statistics; treatment of (see management, pain); see also specific pain syndromes
Cicero
cingulotomies
circumcision
Civil War
Clauw, Dr. Daniel
Cloquet, Jules
cocaine
coffee
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, W. J.
complex regional pain syndrome (reflex sympathetic dystrophy; CRPS)
COMT gene
concussion anesthesia
congenital insensitivity to pain
consequence hypothesis
consumption
cortisol
cortisone
COX-2 inhibitors
Crohn’s disease
crucifixion
crying
CT scanning
Cymbalta
D
danger; see also fight-or-flight response; stress-induced descending analgesia
Darvocet
Darwin, Charles; evolution theory; On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Darwin, Francis
Daudet, Alphonse, In the Land of Pain
Davy, Sir Humphrey; Nitrous Oxide
deadly nightshade
dead nerves; see also neuromas
“Dealing with Difficult Patients in Your Pain Practice” (paper)
deCharms, Christopher
degenerated disks
Demerol
Demeter
demons
dentistry
“depersonalization” of pain
depression; brain chemistry and; as a disease; pain and
Descartes, René
descending analgesia
diabetes
diagnosis
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
difficult patients
Diocles of Carystos
disability
disease; pain as; see also specific diseases
disinhibition
disintegrative pain
disk herniation
distraction, effect on pain of
distress
D’û
DNA
doctors; difficult patient and; gender dynamics and; medical explanations and; notes; opioid addiction and; -patient relationship; patients’ satisfaction with inadequate pain management; see also specific doctors and medical fields
dolor dictat
dopamine; dysregulation
dorsal column stimulator
Douleurs Sans Frontières
drawing and quartering
drowsy syrups
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
drug therapy, see medication, pain; specific drugs
dukkha
dural membrane
E
Ebers Payrus
Edwards, Robert R.
Egyptians, ancient
embracing pain
Emma, Queen of Normandy
emotional pain; see also specific emotions
endorphins
Enlightenment
epilepsy
ether gas; history of
ether monument
Ethiopian Jews
ethnicity, and pain tolerance; see also specific ethnicities
‘etsev
Eve
evil spirits
evolution theory
excitotoxicity
exercise; aerobic; see also physical therapy
expectation: effect on pain of; negative; see also nocebo; placebo
F
faith
Faraday, Michael
fear, effect on pain of
Felstiner, Mary, Out of Joint
fever
fibromyalgia
fight-or-flight response; see also stress-induced descending analgesia
fire ordeals
fish, pain perception in
Fishbain, David A.
Fishman, Scott; The War on Pain
fistulas
Foley, Kathleen
Foucault, Michel
four “humors”
Foxe, John, Book of Martyrs
fractures
France
Frank, Arthur W., At the Will of the Body
French Revolution
Freud, Sigmund
Fülöp-Miller, René, Triumph Over Pain
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); see also brain: imaging
G
gala-tur
Galen
gangrene
Gaskell, Elizabeth, Mary Barton
gate-control theory
GCH1 enzyme
gender; doctor and; pain sensitivity and; pain tolerance and; pain treatment and; see also men; women
Genesis
genetics; depression and; pain sensitivity and
germ theory
Gillies, H. Cameron
Glucklich, Ariel, Sacred Pain
Gnostic Gospels
gods and goddesses
Gospels
Gracely, Richard
Grahi
gray matter
Great Britain; pain and surgery in
Greeks, ancient
Grünewald, Matthias
gunshot wounds
H
hair, color of, and pain sensitivity
hallucinations
Hamilton, Bethany
Harrison, M. Ojinga
headaches; rebound; see also migraines
healing; in ancient world
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health insurance
heart attacks
heart rate
Heidegger, Martin
Heine, Heinrich
Helen of Troy
hell
helplessness, learned
henbane
herbal medicine; ancient; see also specific herbs
hernias
Herodotus
herpes
Hinduism
Hippocrates
Hippocratic oath
Hispanics
HIV
homunculus
hormones; female; stress
Horus
Human Molecular Genetics
Hummer, Robert A.
“humors,” four
Hunter, John
hyperalgesia
hypnosis
hypothalamus
hysteria
I
IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
ibuprofen
Ignatius of Antioch, Saint
immune system; effect of prolonged pain on
Incas
India
Industrial Revolution
infections
inflammation
insensitivity to pain, congenital
insomnia
insurance
integrative pain
International Association for the Study of Pain; definition of pain of
interoceptive cortex
invertebrates, pain of
iron, use in mesmerism of
Italian Americans
“It’s Hard Work Behaving as a Credible Patient” (paper)
‘itstsabown
J
Jesus Christ; pain of
Job, Book of
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
joints
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Judaism
Judeo-Christian tradition
jury, trial by
K
Kafka, Franz, “In the Penal Colony”
Kant, Immanuel; “On the Power of the Mind to Master Morbid Feelings by Sheer Resolution”
kappa-receptor drugs
karma
kavadi
Keate, Robert
Keltner, John
Kempis, see Thomas à Kempis
ketamine
Kiddush Hashem
kidneys
Klonopin
Koran
Krasenbaum, Lynda
Kuala Lumpur
L
laminectomy
Lancet, The
Langeback
Laocoön
Larrey, Dominique-Jean
laudanum
laughing gas, see nitrous oxide
lawsuits
learned helplessness
leprosy
lidocaine
life expectancy
limbic system
limb loss; see also amputation
Liston, Robert
liver; failure
lobotomy
Loeser, John
Lombroso, Cesare
Louis XVI, King of France
M
Mackey, Sean
magnetism; see also mesmerism
Malterud, Kirsti
management, pain; anesthesia; medications; neuroimaging therapy; opiates and opioids; pain sensitivity; patients’ satisfaction with inadequate pain management; unequal treatment
mandrake
Marduk
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
marijuana
martyrdom
Massachusetts General Hospital
massage
mastectomy; chronic pain following; without anesthesia
Masukop, Alexander
Mayday Fund
McCaffery, Margo
McGill Pain Questionnaire
McGill University
McIver, Ronald
MC1R
medication, pain; addiction; ancient; anti-inflammatories; opiates and opioids; pain created by; steroids; see also specific medications
meditation
Melzack, Ronald
memory
men; pain tolerance; pain treatment and
menstruation
Mesmer, Franz
mesmerism
Mesopotamia
methadone
Mickle, Jim
Middle Ages
migraines; see also headaches
Millingen, John Gideon
mind; anesthesia of belief; brain imaging and; power of
Mitchell, Silas Weir
modulation, pain
morphine
Morris, David B., The Culture of Pain
mortality, effect of religion on
Morton, William T. G.
motor neurons
Motrin
Mott, Valentine
MRI; see also functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
Muhammad
multiple sclerosis
mu-receptor analgesics
Murugan, Lord
muscles; atrophy; pain; relaxants; spasms
music, effect on pain of
Muslims
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, Pnin
nalbuphine
naloxone
Napoleon Bonaparte
narcotics, see opioids
National Cancer Institute
Native Americans
nausea
neck pain
nepenthe
nerve blocks
nerves; damage; dead; sensory; severed
nervous system, see central nervous system
neurasthenia
neuroimaging therapy
neurologists
neuromas; see also dead nerves
neurons; motor; sensory
Neurontin
neuropathic pain; syndromes
neuropathy: diabetic peripheral; peripheral
neuropeptides
neuroplasticity
New England Journal of Medicine, The
New England Medical Center Pain Management Center
New York
New York Headache Center
New York Times Magazine, The
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
nineteenth century; mesmerism; pain and healing in; see also Victorian era
nitrous oxide
nocebo
nociceptive pain
nociceptive threshold
nociceptors
noradrenaline
norepinephrine
NSAIDs
numbness
O
obesity, and pain tolerance
occipital nerve
occipital neuralgia
Ohio State University
Omneuron
opiates, see opioids
opioid-induced hyperalgesia
opioids; addiction; backlash; dosage; early uses of; pain created by; receptors, and gender; side effects; withdrawal symptoms; see also opium; specific opioids
opium; see also opioids
ordeal, trial by
orthopedist
osteoarthritis
overuse atrophy
Ovid
Oxford University
OxyContin; addiction; opioid backlash
P
Paget, Sir James
Pain (journal)
pain: etymology of word; International Association for the Study of Pain definition of
painkillers, see medication, pain
Pain Medicine
pain sensitivity; gender and; historical conceptions of; individual; nociceptive threshold; pain threshold; pain tolerance; race and; unequal treatment of pain and
pain threshold
pain tolerance
panic attacks
Papper, E. M., Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep
Paracelsus
paralysis
Paré, Ambroise
Paris Medical Society
Parker, Danielle<
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Parkinson’s disease
Payne, Richard
People’s Journal, The
Pepys, Samuel
Percocet
peripheral neuropathy, see neuropathy
peripheral sensitization
personality disorders
Peruvians, ancient
PET scans
phantom limb pain
Phillips, Clint
physical therapy
Pilates
pilgrims
Pilgrim’s Progress
Pindar
placebo
pneumonia
Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
poena
Portenoy, Russell K.
postherpetic neuralgia
post-laminectomy syndrome
posture
power of the mind
prayer
prefrontal cortex
prejudice, and unequal treatment of pain
“The Princess and the Pea” fairytale
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
proglumide
protection, pain as
Prozac
pseudo-addiction
psychoanalysis
psychopathology
Purdue Pharma
R
Ra
race; pain sensitivity and; pain treatment and; religion and
radiation
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.
rape
Reagan, Ronald
real-time functional neuroimaging (real-time fMRIs)
rebound headaches
rebound pain
reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), see complex regional pain syndrome
reincarnation
religion; ancient; anesthesia and; martyrdom; mortality and; pain and; race and; risks of; see also specific religions
Remen, Rachel Naomi; Kitchen Table Wisdom
rheumatoid arthritis
rheumatologist
Romans, ancient
Romantic movement
romantic love, effect on pain of
rostral anterior cingulated cortex (rACC)
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
Rudra
runner’s high, effect on pain of
Russia
S
salicylic acid; see also aspirin
sanatorium
Sao Man
Sarno, John; Healing Back Pain
scar hypothesis
Scarry, Elaine, The Body in Pain
sciatica
SCN9A gene
scoliosis
Sebastian, Saint
self-inflicted pain
sensitivity, pain, see pain sensitivity
sensory cortex
sensory homunculus, see homunculus
sensory neurons
serotonin
sexual abuse
shamans
shock
shoulder pain
sickle-cell disease
Simpson, Sir James Young
Sims, J. Marion
sinister ideas of pathology
slaves
sleep; deprivation
slipped disk
smell, effect on pain of
social class; treatment of pain and
Soma
somatosensory cortex
Sontag, Susan, Illness as Metaphor
Sophocles
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