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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Opening Remarks: Pain and Experience
Response: Enabling Strategies-A Great Problem Is Not Enough
PART I Pain at the Interface of Biology and Culture
3 Deconstructing Pain: A Deterministic Dissection of the Molecular Basis of Pain
4 Setting the Stage for Pain: Allegorical Tales from Neuroscience
Response: Is Pain Differentially Embodied?
Response: Pain and the Embodiment of Culture
Discussion: Is There Life Left in the Gate Control Theory?
Discussion: The Success of Reductionism in Pain Treatment
PART II Beyond "Coping": Religious Practices of Transformation
5 Palliative or Intensification? Pain and Christian Contemplation in the Spirituality of the Sixteenth-Century Carmelites
6 Pain and the Suffering Consciousness: The Alleviation of Suffering in Buddhist Discourse
Response: The Incommensurable Richness of "Experience"
Response: The Theology of Pain and Suffering in the Jewish Tradition
Discussion: The "Relaxation Response"-Can It Explain Religious Transformation?
Discussion: Reductionism and the Separation of "Suffering" and "Pain"
Discussion: The Instrumentality of Pain in Christianity and Buddhism
PART III Grief and Pain: The Mediation of Pain in Music
7 Voice, Metaphysics, and Community: Pain and Transformation in the Finnish-Karelian Ritual Lament
8 Music, Trancing, and the Absence of Pain
Response: Music as Ecstasy and Music as Trance
Response: Thinking about Music and Pain
Discussion: The Presentation and Representation of Emotion in Music
Discussion: Neurobiological Views of Music, Emotion, and the Body
Discussion: Ritual and Expectation
PART IV Pain, Ritual, and the Somatomoral: Beyond the Individual
9 Pain and Humanity in the Confucian Learning of the Heart-and-Mind
Response: Reflections from Psychiatry on Emergent Mind and Empathy
10 Painful Memories: Ritual and the Transformation of Community Trauma
Response: Collective Memory as a Witness to Collective Pain
Discussion: Pain, Healing, and Memory
PART V Pain as Isolation or Community? Literary and Aesthetic Representations
11 Among Schoolchildren: The Use of Body Damage to Express Physical Pain
12 The Poetics of Anesthesia: Representations of Pain in the Literatures of Classical India
Response: Doubleness, matam, and Muharram Drumming in South Asia
Discussion: The Dislocation, Representation, and Communication of Pain
PART VI When Is Pain Not Suffering and Suffering Not Pain? Self, Ethics, and Transcendence
13 On the Cultural Mediation of Pain
Discussion: The Notion of Face
14 The Place of Pain in the Space of Good and Evil
Response: The Problem of Action
15 Afterword
Contributors
Figure Credits
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Opening Remarks: Pain and Experience
Response: Enabling Strategies-A Great Problem Is Not Enough
PART I Pain at the Interface of Biology and Culture
3 Deconstructing Pain: A Deterministic Dissection of the Molecular Basis of Pain
4 Setting the Stage for Pain: Allegorical Tales from Neuroscience
Response: Is Pain Differentially Embodied?
Response: Pain and the Embodiment of Culture
Discussion: Is There Life Left in the Gate Control Theory?
Discussion: The Success of Reductionism in Pain Treatment
PART II Beyond "Coping": Religious Practices of Transformation
5 Palliative or Intensification? Pain and Christian Contemplation in the Spirituality of the Sixteenth-Century Carmelites
6 Pain and the Suffering Consciousness: The Alleviation of Suffering in Buddhist Discourse
Response: The Incommensurable Richness of "Experience"
Response: The Theology of Pain and Suffering in the Jewish Tradition
Discussion: The "Relaxation Response"-Can It Explain Religious Transformation?
Discussion: Reductionism and the Separation of "Suffering" and "Pain"
Discussion: The Instrumentality of Pain in Christianity and Buddhism
PART III Grief and Pain: The Mediation of Pain in Music
7 Voice, Metaphysics, and Community: Pain and Transformation in the Finnish-Karelian Ritual Lament
8 Music, Trancing, and the Absence of Pain
Response: Music as Ecstasy and Music as Trance
Response: Thinking about Music and Pain
Discussion: The Presentation and Representation of Emotion in Music
Discussion: Neurobiological Views of Music, Emotion, and the Body
Discussion: Ritual and Expectation
PART IV Pain, Ritual, and the Somatomoral: Beyond the Individual
9 Pain and Humanity in the Confucian Learning of the Heart-and-Mind
Response: Reflections from Psychiatry on Emergent Mind and Empathy
10 Painful Memories: Ritual and the Transformation of Community Trauma
Response: Collective Memory as a Witness to Collective Pain
Discussion: Pain, Healing, and Memory
PART V Pain as Isolation or Community? Literary and Aesthetic Representations
11 Among Schoolchildren: The Use of Body Damage to Express Physical Pain
12 The Poetics of Anesthesia: Representations of Pain in the Literatures of Classical India
Response: Doubleness, matam, and Muharram Drumming in South Asia
Discussion: The Dislocation, Representation, and Communication of Pain
PART VI When Is Pain Not Suffering and Suffering Not Pain? Self, Ethics, and Transcendence
13 On the Cultural Mediation of Pain
Discussion: The Notion of Face
14 The Place of Pain in the Space of Good and Evil
Response: The Problem of Action
15 Afterword
Contributors
Figure Credits
Index