RT Book, Section
A1 Kucharski, Anastasia
A1 Todd, Edwin M.
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
SR Print(0)
ID 3411659
T1 Pain: Historical Perspectives
T2 Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e
YR 2004
FD 2004
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071443494
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3411659
RD 2024/04/19
AB For  more  than  50,000  years,  pain  has  been  part  of  the  human  experience.  Pain  has  had  different  meanings  for  different  people.  Likewise  theories  about  the  causes  and  mechanisms  of  pain  reflect  the  state  of  knowledge  of  the  societies  devising  the  theories.  In  all  ages  pain  has  been  a  very  real  and  immediate  concern,  but  always  the  attitudes  and  responses  of  people  have  been  shaped  by  magical,  demonological,  theological,  philosophical,  and  practical  influences  in  varying  degrees  and  with  shifting  emphasis.  It  is  our  purpose  to  capture  and  examine  some  of  these  changing  interpretations  of  pain  through  time.