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Culture, brain, and analgesia : understanding and managing pain in diverse populations

In this state-of-theart volume, culture is placed in the forefront of studying pain in an integrative manner. The authors put forth that a patient's culture should be studied with the purpose of unveiling its effects upon biological systems and the pain neuromatrix.
Print Book, English, ©2013
Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©2013
xxi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780199768875, 0199768870
1131457561
FOREWORD ; Armando Favazza ; PREFACE ; Mario Incayawar and Knox H. Todd ; CONTRIBUTORS ; 1 ; RELEVANCE OF PAIN AND ANALGESIA IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES ; Knox H. Todd and Mario Incayawar ; Cultural Modulation of Pain Experiences ; 2 ; A LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING PAIN IN THE MEDICAL ENCOUNTER ; Lise Bouchard ; 3 ; CULTURE, PLACEBO AND ANALGESIA: CLINICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ; Antonella Pollo, Elisa Carlino and Fabrizio Benedetti ; 4 ; PAIN IN CHILDREN ACROSS CULTURES ; Huda Abu-Saad Huijer ; 5 ; PAIN IN INDIAN CULTURE: CONCEPTUAL AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES ; Judy F. Pugh ; 6 ; INSIGHTS ON THE PAIN EXPERIENCE IN MEXICAN AMERICANS ; Evelyn Ruiz Calvillo ; 7 ; WE FEEL PAIN TOO: ASSERTING THE PAIN EXPERIENCE OF THE QUICHUA PEOPLE ; Mario Incayawar and Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard ; 8 ; ALLYING WITH CHINESE PARENTS FOR ENHANCED CONTROL OF PEDIATRIC POSTOPERATIVE PAIN ; He Hong-Gu and Katri Vehvilainen-Julkunen ; 9 ; UNDERSTANDING ANGLO-AMERICANS' CULTURE, PAIN AND SUFFERING ; Susan Sharp and Cheryl Koopman ; Culture and Pain Assessment ; 10 ; CROSS-CULTURAL USE AND VALIDITY OF PAIN SCALES AND QUESTIONNAIRES - NORWEGIAN CASE STUDY ; Hesook Suzie Kim, Donna Schwartz-Barcott and Inger Magrethe Holter ; 11 ; THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER: IMPLICATIONS FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT DISPARITIES ; Raymond Tait ; 12 ; SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF PAIN: PATIENTS, DENTISTS AND ETHNICITY ; Rod Moore ; Disparities and Inequities in Pain Management ; 13 ; IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT RACIAL AND ETHNIC BIAS AMONG PHYSICIANS ; Fatima Rodriguez and Alexander R. Green ; 14 ; ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PAIN MANAGEMENT ; Knox H. Todd and Mark J. Pletcher ; 15 ; PATIENT-PROVIDER ETHNIC CONCORDANCE IN PAIN CONTROL: NEGOTIATING THE INTANGIBLE BARRIER ; Salimah H. Meghani and Oren K. Isacoff ; 16 ; THE EFFECT OF ETHNICITY ON PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA FOR POST-OPERATIVE PAIN ; Bernardo Ng ; 17 ; DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE AND PAIN MANAGEMENT FOR AMERICANS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE ; Joseph Telfair and Lori Crosby ; 18 ; UNAVAILABILITY OF PAIN MEDICINES IN MINORITY NEIGBORHOODS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; Laura P. Gelfman and R. Sean Morrison ; Cross-Cultural Management of Pain ; 19 ; DISPARITIES IN TREATMENT OF CANCER PAIN IN ETHNIC MINORITY PATIENTS ; Karen O. Anderson ; 20 ; THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH: MANAGEMENT AMONG CULTURALLY DIVERSE WOMEN ; Lynn Clark Callister ; 21 ; GENDER AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSES TO PAIN AND ITS TREATMENT ; Burel R. Goodin, Kimberly Sibille and Roger B. Fillingim ; 22 ; PAIN MANAGEMENT AMONG CHINESE CANCER PATIENTS ; Lara Dhingra, Graciete Lo, Victor Chang and John Tsoi ; 23 ; PAIN AND AGING: MANAGING PAIN IN AN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE POPULATION ; Cielito Reyes-Gibby and Guadalupe R. Palos ; 24 ; OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICANS: MANAGING PAIN AMONG THE UNDERSERVED AND MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ; Carmen R. Green and Mythili Prabhu ; Pharmacogenomics and Analgesic Drugs ; 25 ; INSENSITIVITY TO PAIN: LESSONS FROM RECENT GENETICS ADVANCES ; Nancy Merner , Patrick A. Dion, Anna Szuto and Guy A. Rouleau ; 26 ; OPIOID REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSES IN ASIANS ; Anna Lee, Simon KC Chan and Tony Gin ; 27 ; ETHNICITY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY IN PAIN ; Keh-Ming Lin ; Contextual Issues in Pain Medicine ; 28 ; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE APPROACH TO CHRONIC PAIN ; Stephen Dahmer, Raymond Teets, and Emilie Scott ; 29 ; PHYSICIANS' PERCEPTION OF PAIN AS RELATED TO EMPATHY, SYMPATHY AND THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM ; Mohammadreza Hojat and Mitchell J.M. Cohen ; 30 ; PAIN, CULTURE AND PATHWAYS TO CARE ; Gurvinder Kalra, Susham Gupta and Dinesh Bhugra ; The Future of Analgesia in Diverse Populations ; 31 ; CULTURE, PHARMACOGENOMICS AND PERSONALIZED ANALGESIA ; Mario Incayawar and Knox H. Todd