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The myth of pain /

"Hardcastle offers a biologically based complex theory of pain processing, inhibition, and sensation and then uses this theory to make several arguments: (1) psychogenic pains do not exist; (2) a general lack of knowledge about fundamental brain function prevents us from distinguishing between...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardcastle, Valerie Gray
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
©1999
Colección:Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Myths of Pain
  • A Brief and Scattered History of Pain
  • A Vague Road Map and Preview
  • Pathological Pains
  • Setting the Stage
  • Are Pains a Mental Disorder?
  • A Brief Tour of the Official Line
  • The Psychology of Chronic Pain
  • Methodological Ills
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • The Pain Personality
  • Mind over Matter?
  • The Terms of the Debate
  • Mental Causation
  • Naturalizing Content
  • The Real Question
  • In Defense of Lazy Materialism
  • Distinctions and Definitions
  • Defining Mental States
  • Meeting Stich's Challenge: Philosophy's Place in Science
  • Mental versus Physical Causes
  • What We Don't Know about Brains: Two Competing Perspectives
  • The Feature-Detection Perspective
  • The Organization of the Brain
  • The Feature-Detection Perspective on the Dorsal Horn
  • Problems with the Perspective
  • The Dynamical Systems Approach
  • A Primer on Dynamical Systems
  • A Reason to Switch
  • A Dynamical Systems Perspective on the Dorsal Horn
  • Problems with the Approach
  • The Moral of the Story: Incompatible Approaches
  • A Difference in Explanatory Strategies
  • The Pragmatics of Neuroscience
  • The Nature of Pain
  • Pain as a Sensory System
  • The Complexity of Our Sensory Systems
  • A Sketch of Our Pain System
  • Philosophy's Error
  • The Awfulness of Pain
  • Images of Pain
  • The Emotion of Pain
  • Chronic Pain Possibilities
  • The Dynamical Approach
  • When a Pain Isn't
  • The Strangeness of Pain
  • Correlations between Nociception and Perception
  • Illusions of Pain
  • IASP's Reaction.