The Pain Chronicles (42 page)

INDEX

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A

abdominal pain

acetaminophen;
see also
Tylenol

acupuncture; surgery in China with

acute pain

Adam

addiction; benzodiazepine; chloroform; cocaine; opioid; pseudo-; substance abuse

adrenaline

Advil;
see also
ibuprofen

aerobic exercise

Africa

African Americans; pain sensitivity; pain treatment; religion and; slavery

AIDS

Akiva, Rabbi

Akkadians

alcohol

Aleve

Alexander the Great

allodynia

alternative medicine; acupuncture; biofeedback; chiropractic; homeopathy; massage; meditation;
see also
herbal medicine

American Pain Foundation

American Pain Society

American Revolution

Améry, Jean

amputation; phantom limb pain; wartime; without anesthesia

ancient world; medicinal substances; pain and healing in; religion;
see also specific civilizations

Andersen, Hans Christian, “The Princess and the Pea”

anesthesia; of belief; in childbirth; children and; concussion; development of; early; invention of; pain relief prior to; religion and; risks; surgery without;
see also
chloroform; ether gas; nitrous oxide

anesthesiologist

animals, pain in

antecedent hypothesis

anterior corpus callosum

antibiotics

Anti-Chloroformers

antidepressants

anti-inflammatories

antiseptic techniques

anxiety

Apkarian, A. Vania

Apollo

Aquinas,
see
Thomas Aquinas

Aristotle

arm pain

Arnold of Villanova

Artemis

arthritis; rheumatoid

Arthritis Foundation

Asclepius

Asian Americans

Aspen Back Institute

aspirin

Assyrians

asthma

Athelstan, King of England

athletics

Ativan

attention; effects of pain on

Aubryet, Xavier

autoimmune diseases

B

baby boomers

“baby-calmers”

Babylonians

back pain

Bakan, David
Disease, Pain and Sacrifice

Basbaum, Allan

Baudelaire, Charles

behavioral responses to pain

belief, anesthesia of;
see also
mesmerism; placebo

Bell, Sir Charles

benzodiazepines

beta-endorphins

Bhagavad Gita

BH4

Bible

bidirectional pain pathways

Bigelow, Henry

biofeedback

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

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