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Page 136
... experience of pain that results from pain messages received by the brain depends in its quality and in its quantity on genetic endowment10 and on at least four functional factors other than the nature and intensity of the stimulus ...
... experience of pain that results from pain messages received by the brain depends in its quality and in its quantity on genetic endowment10 and on at least four functional factors other than the nature and intensity of the stimulus ...
Page 140
... experience that allows you and me to compare our headaches ; much less does it mean a certain physiological or medical entity , a clinical case with certain pathological signs . It is not " pain in the sternocleidomas- toid " which is ...
... experience that allows you and me to compare our headaches ; much less does it mean a certain physiological or medical entity , a clinical case with certain pathological signs . It is not " pain in the sternocleidomas- toid " which is ...
Page 141
... experience . Indeed , I recognize the signs made by someone who is in pain , even when this experience is beyond my aid or comprehension . This awareness of extreme loneliness is a peculiarity of the compassion we feel for bodily pain ...
... experience . Indeed , I recognize the signs made by someone who is in pain , even when this experience is beyond my aid or comprehension . This awareness of extreme loneliness is a peculiarity of the compassion we feel for bodily pain ...
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The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
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