Research Catalog
Pain and suffering
- Title
- Pain and suffering / William K. Livingston ; editor, Howard L. Fields.
- Author
- Livingston, W. K. (William Kenneth), 1892-1966.
- Publication
- Seattle : IASP Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RB127 .L48 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Fields, Howard L.
- Description
- xvii, 250 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Livingston, who chaired the department of surgery at the U. of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health Sciences U.), left this previously unpublished manuscript on personal narratives about his pain research and clinical cases when he died in 1966. Chapters cover such topics as phantom limb pain, hypnosis, and the Pain Project. Appendices on post-traumatic pain syndrome, the Pain Project team, and the original conclusion to the manuscript augment the text. The book's price for Members of the International Association for the Study of Pain is $31.20. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Personal narratives
- History
- Personal narratives.
- Récits personnels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index.
- Contents
- The interpretive background for a concept of pain -- Opening a colostomy -- The problem of visceral pain -- "Visceral pain" from peripheral blood vessels -- Studies of visceral nerve function -- Irritative nerve lesions -- Glomus tumors -- Phantom limb pain -- The mirror image -- Tentative interpretations -- Missile wounds of nerves -- A case of major Causalgia...
- ISBN
- 0931092248
- 9780931092244
- LCCN
- 98040341
- OCLC
- ocm39728198
- 39728198
- SCSB-1205755
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library