Ebook: The Routledge handbook of philosophy of pain

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature. Though pain might seem simple, there has been disagreement since Aristotle about whether pain is an emotion, sensation, perception, or disturbed state of the body. Despite advances in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, pain is still poorly understood and multiple theories of pain abound. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting and interdisciplinary subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into nine clear parts: Modelling pain in philosophy; Modelling pain in neuroscience; Modelling pain in psychology; Pain in philosophy of mind; Pain in epistemology; Pain in philosophy of religion; Pain in ethics; Pain in medicine; Pain in law. As well as fundamental topics in the philosophy of pain such as the nature, role, and value of pain, many other important topics are covered including the neurological pathways involved in pain processing, biopsychosocial and cognitive behavioural models of pain; chronic pain; pain and non-human animals; pain and knowledge; controlled substances for pain; pain and placebo effects; and pain and physician assisted suicide.;A brief and potted overview on the philosophical theories of pain / Valerie Gray Hardcastle -- Pain and representation / Brian Cutter -- Evaluativist accounts of pain's unpleasantness / David Bain -- Imperativism / Colin Klein -- Fault lines in familiar concepts of pain / Christopher S. Hill -- Advances in the neuroscience of pain / Vania Apkarian -- Neuromatrix theory of pain / Mathieu Roy and Tor D. Wager -- A neurobiological view of pain as a homeostatic emotion / Irina A. Strigo and Arthur D. Craig -- A view of pain based on sensations, meanings, and emotions / Donald D. Price -- Pathophysiological mechanisms of chronic pain / Mick Thacker and Lorimer Moseley -- Psychological models of pain / Amanda C. de C. Williams -- Biopsychosocial models of pain / Thomas Hadjistavropoulos -- Psychogenic pain: old and new / Mark D. Sullivan -- Pain, voluntary action, and the sense of agency / Brianna Beck and Patrick Haggard -- The lives of others: pain in non-human animals / Paula Droege -- Robot pain / Pete Mandik -- Pain and consciousness / David Pereplyotchik -- Pain: perception or introspection / Murat Aydede -- Pain and rationality / Jonathan Cohen and Matthew Fulkerson -- Pain and incorrigibility / Peter Langland-Hassan -- Can I see your pain? An evaluative model of pain perception / Frédérique de Vignemont -- Pain and cognitive penetrability / Hilla Jacobson -- Sacred pain: the use of self-inflicted pain in religion / Ariel Glucklich -- The role of pain in Buddhism: the conquest of suffering / Palden Gyal and Owen Flanagan -- Pain and the divine / Trent Dougherty -- The problem of pain in the philosophy of religion / Steve Layman -- Bad by nature: an axiological theory of pain / Olivier Massin -- Pain and torture / Michael Davis -- Pain and education / Avi I. Mintz -- Pain and justified evaluative belief / Robert Cowan -- An introduction to the IASP's definition of pain / Andrew Wright -- Philosophy and "placebo" analgesia / Daniel E. Moerman -- Pain management / Carolyn Berryman, Mark Catley and Lorimer Moseley -- Pain and the law / Ben A. Rich -- Pain and controlled pain-relieving substances / Sunil Kumar Aggarwal and Katherine Pettus -- Fetal pain and the law: abortion laws and their relationship to ideas about pain and fetal pain / Stuart W.G. Derbyshire -- Pain, mental suffering and physician-assisted death / Daniel Weinstock.