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- Editors:
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Matisyohu Weisenberg
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University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA
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Bernard Tursky
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State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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- Matisyohu Weisenberg, Bernard Tursky
Pages 1-9
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- C. Norman Shealy, Mary-Charlotte Shealy
Pages 21-33
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- John F. Chaves, Theodore Xenophon Barber
Pages 43-65
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- Charles F. Stroebel, Bernard C. Glueck
Pages 75-81
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- Charles S. Greene, Daniel M. Laskin
Pages 83-91
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- Peter James Dyck, E. H. Lambert, Peter O’Brien
Pages 147-153
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- R. Dubner, R. E. Beitel, F. J. Brown
Pages 155-170
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Back Matter
Pages 223-231
About this book
With the growing realization that pain and its control are vital areas for both theoretical and practical research as well as clinical treatment has come the desire for an assessment of the state-of-the-art. Pain research by itself is not new. Yet, approaches to the study and control of pain are new. This book is based upon a symposium-workshop on the study and control of pain that took place at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, January, 1975. It was destgned to deal with a number of theoretical and clinical issues. We at tempted to assess previous years of research, how conceptions of pain phenomena have changed and what are some of the gaps in our knowledge. Presentations were also geared to show our increased methodological sophistication. Clinically, we have also changed our treatment conceptualization of pain control. We have not merely added a few "tricks" to deal with pain. Entirely new approaches are now available. View ing pain as a public health problem we find many areas of needed research that should be directed toward the epidemio logy of pain, the reduction of fear of obtaining health care, and unmet treatment needs. Obviously, this book cannot provide full, comprehensive treatment of all the issues involved. It can, however, pro vide the reader with an understanding of the current, major thrusts, new research and treatment goals in pain control.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA
Matisyohu Weisenberg
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State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Bernard Tursky
