Deborah Padfield worked on ideas for images which Deborah photographed, either solely
or with their assistance. The resultant images were reviewed in further sessions. The images …

For the postoperative patient, when the source is a large hole in the integument, an analysis
of the sensory experience is hardly necessary. It hurts, and appropriate doses of a suitable …

What is persistent pain? How do we communicate pain, not only in words but in visual
images and gesture? How do we respond to the pain of another, and can we do it better …

This chapter deals with visual clues to both health and illness. The'discovery'of a physical
clue to illness may come as a result of a change in appearance, such as the rash of …

…[W] hat will he answer, if someone says that all he has seen till now was false and a trick,
but that now he sees more truly?… And if he were forced to look straight at the light itself …

T here is what we might call a'big idea'at large at the moment in clinical medicine, perhaps
reaching its peak now after around 10 years' brewing. What is the idea? It is that medicine …

On November 7, 2003, things changed at Abu Ghraib prison, twenty miles west of Baghdad,
an institution which in the fall of 2003 contained “well over eight thousand Iraqis.” 1 Things …

Conversations about chronic pain can be challenging. There is not much scope for optimistic
problem solving and the limits of mainstream medicine are quickly reached. Psychological …

The challenge for those treating or witnessing pain is to find a way of crossing the chasm of
meaning between them and the person living with pain. This paper proposes that images …

Pain sensations and the associated sensory phenomena are internal perceptions
constructed from experience, anticipation, psychological makeup, and neurological activity …