@article{1479303,
      author = {Becker, Judith,  and Brust, John C. M.,  and Coakley,  Sarah,  and Coakley, Sarah,  and Cole, Jennifer,  and  Fields, Howard L.,  and Gómez, Luis O.,  and Hallisey,  Charles,  and Harrington, Anne,  and Kaufman Shelemay, Kay,   and Kirmayer, Laurence J.,  and Kleinman, Arthur,  and  Levenson, Jon D.,  and Scarry, Elaine,  and Selby, Martha  Ann,  and Shelemay, Kay Kaufman,  and Tambiah, Stanley,   and Tolbert, Elizabeth,  and Weiming, Tu,  and Wolf,  Richard K.,  and Wolterstorff, Nicholas,  and Woolf,  Clifford J., },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479303},
      title = {Pain and Its Transformations : The Interface of Biology  and Culture /},
      abstract = {Pain is immediate and searing but remains a deep mystery  for sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As  neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate  sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and  interpretation. At the same time, many individuals and  cultures find meaning, particularly religious meaning, even  in chronic and inexplicable pain. This ambitious  interdisciplinary book includes not only essays but also  discussions among a wide range of specialists.  Neuroscientists, psychiatrists, anthropologists,  musicologists, and scholars of religion examine the ways  that meditation, music, prayer, and ritual can mediate  pain, offer a narrative that transcends the sufferer, and  give public dignity to private agony. They discuss topics  as disparate as the molecular basis of pain, the  controversial status of gate control theory, the possible  links between the relaxation response and meditative  practices in Christianity and Buddhism, and the mediation  of pain and intense emotion in music, dance, and ritual.  The authors conclude by pondering the place of pain in  understanding--or the human failure to understand--good and  evil in history.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271531},
      recid = {1479303},
      pages = {1 online resource (456 p.)},
}