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- 1. Introduction [Sarah Coakley]
- 2. Opening Remarks [Arthur Kleinman]
- Response from Anne Harrington
- Part I: Pain at the Interface of Biology and Culture
- 3. Deconstructing Pain—A Deterministic Dissection of the Molecular Basis of Pain [Clifford Woolf]
- 4. Setting The Stage For Pain: Allegorical Tales From Neuroscience [Howard Fields]
- Response from Anne Harrington: Is Pain Differentially Embodied?
- Response from Elaine Scarry: Pain and the Embodiment of Culture
- Discussion: Is There Life Left in the Gate Control Theory?
- Discussion: The Success of Reductionism in Pain Treatment
- Part II: Beyond “Coping”: Religious Practices of Transformation
- 5. Palliative or Intensification? Pain and Christian Contemplation in the Spirituality of the 16th-Century Carmelites [Sarah Coakley]
- 6. Pain and the Suffering Consciousness: The Alleviation of Suffering in Buddhist Discourse [Luis Gómez]
- Response from Arthur Kleinman: The Incommensurable Richness of “Experience”
- Response from Jon Levenson: The Theology of Pain and Suffering in the Jewish Tradition
- Discussion: The “Relaxation Response”: Can it Explain Religious Transformation?
- Discussion: Reductionism and the Separation of Suffering and Pain
- Discussion: The Instrumentality of Pain in Christianity and Buddhism
- Part III: Grief and Pain: The Mediation of Pain in Music
- 7. Voice, Metaphysics, and Community: Pain and Transformation in the Finnish Karelian Ritual Lament [Elizabeth Tolbert]
- 8. Music, Trancing and the Absence of Pain [Judith Becker]
- Response from John Brust: Music as Ecstasy and Music as Trance
- Response from Kay Shelemay: Thinking About Music and Pain
- Discussion: The Presentation and Representation of Emotion in Music
- Discussion: Neurobiological Views of Music, Emotion, and the Body
- Discussion: Ritual and Expectation
- Part IV: Pain, Ritual and the Somatomoral: Beyond the Individual
- 9. Pain and Humanity in the Confucian Learning of the Heart-and-Mind [Tu Weiming]
- Response from Laurence Kirmayer: Reflections from Psychiatry on Emergent Mind and Empathy
- 10. Painful Memories: Ritual and the Transformation of Community Trauma [Jennifer Cole]
- Response from Stanley Tambiah: Collective Memory as a Witness to Collective Pain
- Discussion: Pain, Healing, and Memory
- Part V: Pain as Isolation or Community? Literary and Aesthetic Representations
- 11. Physical Pain and the Ground of Creating [Elaine Scarry]
- 12. The Poetics of Anaesthesia: Representations of Pain in the Literatures of Classical India [Martha Ann Selby]
- Response from Richard Wolf: Doubleness, matam, and Muharram Drumming in South Asia
- Discussion: The Dislocation, Representation, and Communication of Pain
- Part VI: When Is Pain Not Suffering and Suffering Not Pain?: Self, Ethics and Transcendence
- 13. On the Cultural Mediation of Pain [Laurence Kirmayer]
- Discussion: The Notion of Face
- 14. The Place of Pain in the Space of Good and Evil [Nicholas Wolterstorff]
- Response from Charles Hallisey: The Problem of Action
- 15. Afterword [Sarah Coakley]
MIND/BRAIN/BEHAVIOR INITIATIVE
Pain and Its Transformations
The Interface of Biology and Culture
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Publication Date: 01/31/2008
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