This month, guest Daniel Goldberg gives a provocative look into the world of pain without lesion. How do – and should – doctors handle patients’ pain when there’s no visible cause?
Guest essay – Daniel S. Goldberg, “Where Does It Hurt?”
for further reading:
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007).
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith (Vintage Books, 1994).
- Daniel S. Goldberg, The Sole Indexicality of Pain: How Attitudes Towards the Elderly Erect Barriers to Adequate Pain Management, 13(1) MICH. STATE J. MED. & LAW 51 (2008).
- Andrew Hodgkiss, From Lesion to Metaphor: Chronic Pain in British, French and German Medical Writings, 1800-1914 (Rodopi, 2000).
- Jean E. Jackson, Camp Pain: Talking with Chronic Pain Patients (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
- Jean E. Jackson, “Stigma, Liminality, and Chronic Pain: Mind-Body Borderlands,” American Ethnologist 32, no. 3 (2005).
- David B. Morris, “An Invisible History of Pain: Early 19th Century Britain and America,” The Clinical Journal of Pain 14, no. 3 (1998): 191-196.
- David B. Morris, The Culture of Pain (University of California Press, 1993).
- Martin J. Pernick, A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Analgesia in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbia UP, 1985).
- David B. Resnik, Marsha Rehm, and Raymond B. Minard, “The Undertreatment of Pain: Scientific, Clinical, Cultural, and Philosophical Factors,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 4 (2001): 277-288.
- Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford UP, 1987).
- Edward Shorter, From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era (Free Press, 1993).
- Mark Sullivan, “Finding Pain Between Minds and Bodies,” The Clinical Journal of Pain 17 (2001): 146-156.
Daniel S. Goldberg received his B.A. with honors in philosophy from Wesleyan University, his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center, and is currently a Ph.D student in the medical humanities at University of Texas Medical Branch. He is also a health policy fellow at Baylor College of Medicine’s Chronic Disease Prevention & Control Research Center, and a Research Professor at Baylor College of Medicine’s Initiative on Law, Brains, and Behavior. His work focuses on a variety of issues, including conflicts of interest, neuroethics, disabilities, and the social determinants of health. His forthcoming dissertation will use the lenses of the medical humanities to address the root causes of the widespread under-treatment of pain in the U.S. He is also interested in assessing the role of the medical humanities for health policy.
On the Shelf:
- Christine Garwood, Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008).
Audio credits:
All music on this program courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, except where noted.
- Sunburn in Cyprus, History (intro & outro)
- Happy Gemini 3, Pondering the 10th Planet (transitions)
- during main essay (all courtesy of Magnatune):
- after main essay: Peter Greenstone, The Pain Game
- Sound effects courtesy of the FreeSound Project:
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