Table of Contents

Maldynia: The Illness of Chronic Pain. A Short History of Pain and Its Treatment. Pain Does Not Suffer Misprision: The Presence and Absence that is Pain. Understanding Suffering: The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of the Experience of Illness and of Pain. How (Can) I Feel Your Pain: The Problem of Empathy and Hermeneutics in Pain Care. Spirituality, Suffering and the Self. History of the Expression of Pain in Art. Maldynia as Muse: A Recent Experiment in the Visual Arts and Medical Humanities,. Maldynic Pain in Image and Experience: Engraving Meaning through Subtraction. Musical Representations of Physical Pain. Beyond Technology: Narrative in Pain Medicine. Psychological Assessment of Maldynic Pain: The Need for a Phenomenological Approach. Painism- A New Ethics: Richard Ryder’s Moral Theory and Its Limitations. Maldynia: Chronic Pain, Complexity and Complementarity. A Clinical Ethics of Chronic Pain Management: Basis, Reason and Responsibilities. Children, Pain, and the Creation of Suffering: Toward an Ethic of Lamentation. Goal-Directed Health Care and the Chronic Pain Patient: A New Vision of the Healing Encounter. The Problem of Pain and the Moral Formation of Physicians.

About the Author

James Giordano