The Pain Chronicles (43 page)

limbic system

limb loss;
see also
amputation

Liston, Robert

liver; failure

lobotomy

Loeser, John

Lombroso, Cesare

Louis XVI, King of France

M

Mackey, Sean

magnetism;
see also
mesmerism

Malterud, Kirsti

management, pain; anesthesia; medications; neuroimaging therapy; opiates and opioids; pain sensitivity; patients’ satisfaction with inadequate pain management; unequal treatment

mandrake

Marduk

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

marijuana

martyrdom

Massachusetts General Hospital

massage

mastectomy; chronic pain following; without anesthesia

Masukop, Alexander

Mayday Fund

McCaffery, Margo

McGill Pain Questionnaire

McGill University

McIver, Ronald

MC1R

medication, pain; addiction; ancient; anti-inflammatories; opiates and opioids; pain created by; steroids;
see also specific medications

meditation

Melzack, Ronald

memory

men; pain tolerance; pain treatment and

menstruation

Mesmer, Franz

mesmerism

Mesopotamia

methadone

Mickle, Jim

Middle Ages

migraines;
see also
headaches

Millingen, John Gideon

mind; anesthesia of belief; brain imaging and; power of

Mitchell, Silas Weir

modulation, pain

morphine

Morris, David B.,
The Culture of Pain

mortality, effect of religion on

Morton, William T. G.

motor neurons

Motrin

Mott, Valentine

MRI;
see also
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup

Muhammad

multiple sclerosis

mu-receptor analgesics

Murugan, Lord

muscles; atrophy; pain; relaxants; spasms

music, effect on pain of

Muslims

N

Nabokov, Vladimir,
Pnin

nalbuphine

naloxone

Napoleon Bonaparte

narcotics,
see
opioids

National Cancer Institute

Native Americans

nausea

neck pain

nepenthe

nerve blocks

nerves; damage; dead; sensory; severed

nervous system,
see
central nervous system

neurasthenia

neuroimaging therapy

neurologists

neuromas;
see also
dead nerves

neurons; motor; sensory

Neurontin

neuropathic pain; syndromes

neuropathy: diabetic peripheral; peripheral

neuropeptides

neuroplasticity

New England Journal of Medicine, The

New England Medical Center Pain Management Center

New York

New York Headache Center

New York Times Magazine, The

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

nineteenth century; mesmerism; pain and healing in;
see also
Victorian era

nitrous oxide

nocebo

nociceptive pain

nociceptive threshold

nociceptors

noradrenaline

norepinephrine

NSAIDs

numbness

O

obesity, and pain tolerance

occipital nerve

occipital neuralgia

Ohio State University

Omneuron

opiates,
see
opioids

opioid-induced hyperalgesia

opioids; addiction; backlash; dosage; early uses of; pain created by; receptors, and gender; side effects; withdrawal symptoms;
see also
opium;
specific opioids

opium;
see also
opioids

ordeal, trial by

orthopedist

osteoarthritis

overuse atrophy

Ovid

Oxford University

OxyContin; addiction; opioid backlash

P

Paget, Sir James

Pain
(journal)

pain: etymology of word; International Association for the Study of Pain definition of

painkillers,
see
medication, pain

Pain Medicine

pain sensitivity; gender and; historical conceptions of; individual; nociceptive threshold; pain threshold; pain tolerance; race and; unequal treatment of pain and

pain threshold

pain tolerance

panic attacks

Papper, E. M.,
Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep

Paracelsus

paralysis

Paré, Ambroise

Paris Medical Society

Parker, Danielle

Parkinson’s disease

Payne, Richard

People’s Journal, The

Pepys, Samuel

Percocet

peripheral neuropathy,
see
neuropathy

peripheral sensitization

personality disorders

Peruvians, ancient

PET scans

phantom limb pain

Phillips, Clint

physical therapy

Pilates

pilgrims

Pilgrim’s Progress

Pindar

placebo

pneumonia

Poem of the Righteous Sufferer

poena

Portenoy, Russell K.

postherpetic neuralgia

post-laminectomy syndrome

posture

power of the mind

prayer

prefrontal cortex

prejudice, and unequal treatment of pain

“The Princess and the Pea” fairytale

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

proglumide

protection, pain as

Prozac

pseudo-addiction

psychoanalysis

psychopathology

Purdue Pharma

R

Ra

race; pain sensitivity and; pain treatment and; religion and

radiation

Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.

rape

Reagan, Ronald

real-time functional neuroimaging (real-time fMRIs)

rebound headaches

rebound pain

reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD),
see
complex regional pain syndrome

reincarnation

religion; ancient; anesthesia and; martyrdom; mortality and; pain and; race and; risks of;
see also specific religions

Remen, Rachel Naomi;
Kitchen Table Wisdom

rheumatoid arthritis

rheumatologist

Romans, ancient

Romantic movement

romantic love, effect on pain of

rostral anterior cingulated cortex (rACC)

Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society

Rudra

runner’s high, effect on pain of

Russia

S

salicylic acid;
see also
aspirin

sanatorium

Sao Man

Sarno, John;
Healing Back Pain

scar hypothesis

Scarry, Elaine,
The Body in Pain

sciatica

SCN9A gene

scoliosis

Sebastian, Saint

self-inflicted pain

sensitivity, pain,
see
pain sensitivity

sensory cortex

sensory homunculus,
see
homunculus

sensory neurons

serotonin

sexual abuse

shamans

shock

shoulder pain

sickle-cell disease

Simpson, Sir James Young

Sims, J. Marion

sinister ideas of pathology

slaves

sleep; deprivation

slipped disk

smell, effect on pain of

social class; treatment of pain and

Soma

somatosensory cortex

Sontag, Susan,
Illness as Metaphor

Sophocles

Southern Medical and Surgical Journal

Southey, Robert

Spanish Inquisition

spinal cord; cervical spondylosis; injury

spinal stenosis

SSRIs,
see
Prozac; Zoloft

Stanford Five

Stanford University

starvation

sterilization

steroids; side effects

Stoics

stomach ulcers

Stone, Reverend Edmund

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

stress; fight-or-flight response; hormones; management

stress-induced descending analgesia

strokes

substance abuse

suffering; deliberate creation of; religion and

suicide

Sumerians

“super-aspirin”

surgery; acupuncture and; botched; development of anesthesia; mesmerism and; pain syndromes; without anesthesia

swearing, effect on pain of

Syme, James

syphilis

T

Taddio, Anna

Tel Aviv University

telic centralizing

telic decentralizing

tendons

tension myositis syndrome,
see
TMS

thalamus

ThermaCare

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas Aquinas

thoracotomy

tissue damage

titrating to effect

TMJ (myogenous temporomandibular joint disorder)

TMS

toothaches

Topham, William

torture; Bush administration policy on; Nazis and

Tracey, Irene

traction

tramadol

trazodone

trepanation

trial by ordeal

trigeminal neuralgia

tuberculosis

tumors, brain

Tylenol

U

ulcers

unequal treatment of pain; pain sensitivity and

University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Francisco

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

V

Valium

Velpeau, Alfred

Vicodin

Victoria, Queen of England

Victorian era

Vioxx

vision

W

Wall, Patrick David

war

Warren, John Collins

Washington, George

waterboarding

Wellbutrin

Wells, Horace

Werner, Anne

whimpering

“why me?” question

willow bark

Wilson, George

Wilson, Holly

wine

Winter, Alison,
Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

women; childbirth; doctors and; pain sensitivity; pain tolerance; pain treatment and

Woodrow, Kenneth M.

Woolf, Clifford

Woolf, Virginia

worms

Z

Zen

Zoloft

Zomig

Zubieta, Jon-Kar

Zurich