Pain and suffering / William K. Livingston ; editor, Howard L. Fields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingston, W. K. (William Kenneth), 1892-1966.

Contributor:

Fields, Howard L.

Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Livingston, W. K. (William Kenneth), 1892-1966.

Livingston, W. K.

Pain--Research--History.

Pain.

Pain--Research.

History.

Research.

Medical Subjects:

Pain.

Research.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xvii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : IASP Press, [1998]

Contents:

1. The Interpretive Background for a Concept of Pain 7

2. Opening a Colostomy 11

3. The Problem of Visceral Sensibility 17

4. The Adequate Stimulus for True Visceral Pain 25

5. "Visceral Pain" from Peripheral Blood Vessels 31

6. Studies of Visceral Nerve Function 41

7. Irritative Nerve Lesions 49

8. Glomus Tumors 59

9. Phantom Limb Pain 69

10. The Mirror Image 79

11. Tentative Interpretations 87

12. Missile Wounds of Nerves 93

13. A Case of Major Causalgia 103

14. Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Causalgia 111

15. Procaine and Nitrous Oxide "Analgesia" 119

16. Hypnosis 129

17. The Pain Project 139

18. Seminar 1: The Philosophers and Johannes Muller 145

19. Seminar 2: The "Reticular Formation" 155

20. Seminar 3: Two Blind Alleys (Nerve Irritation and "Zombies") 163

21. Seminar 4: Tracing Tooth-Pulp Responses into the Cat Brain 171

22. Seminar 5: The Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System 181

23. Habituation 189

24. Appetitive Systems in the Brain 197

25. Pulling the Picture Together 205

26. Interpretations and Speculation 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.

ISBN:

0931092248

OCLC:

39728198