CULTURE, BRAIN AND ANALGESIA
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FOREWORD
Armando Favazza

PREFACE
Mario Incayawar and Knox H. Todd

1

RELEVANCE OF PAIN AND ANALGESIA IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
Knox H. Todd and Mario Incayawar

Cultural Modulation of Pain Experiences

2

A LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING PAIN IN THE MEDICAL ENCOUNTER
Lise Bouchard

3

CULTURE, PLACEBO AND ANALGESIA: CLINICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Antonella Pollo, Elisa Carlino, and Fabrizio Benedetti

4

PAIN IN CHILDREN ACROSS CULTURES
Huda Abu-Saad Huijer

5

PAIN IN INDIAN CULTURE: CONCEPTUAL AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES
Judy F. Pugh

6

INSIGHTS ON THE PAIN EXPERIENCE IN MEXICAN AMERICANS
Evelyn Ruiz Calvillo

7

WE FEEL PAIN TOO: ASSERTING THE PAIN EXPERIENCE OF THE QUICHUA PEOPLE
Mario Incayawar and Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard

8

ALLYING WITH CHINESE PARENTS FOR ENHANCED CONTROL OF PEDIATRIC POSTOPERATIVE PAIN
He Hong-Gu and Katri Vehvilainen-Julkunen

9

UNDERSTANDING ANGLO-AMERICANS’ CULTURE, PAIN, AND SUFFERING
Susan Sharp and Cheryl Koopman

Culture and Pain Assessment

10

CROSS-CULTURAL USE AND VALIDITY OF PAIN SCALES AND QUESTIONNAIRES - NORWEGIAN CASE STUDY
Hesook Suzie Kim, Donna Schwartz-Barcott, and Inger Magrethe Holter

11

THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER: IMPLICATIONS FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT DISPARITIES
Raymond C.Tait

12

SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF PAIN: PATIENTS, DENTISTS, AND ETHNICITY
Rod Moore

Disparities and Inequities in Pain Management

13

IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT ETHNIC BIAS AMONG PHYSICIANS
Fatima Rodriguez and Alexander R. Green

14

ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PAIN MANAGEMENT
Knox H. Todd and Mark J. Pletcher

15

PATIENT-PROVIDER ETHNIC CONCORDANCE IN PAIN CONTROL: NEGOTIATING THE INTANGIBLE BARRIER
Salimah H. Meghani and Oren K. Isacoff

16

THE EFFECT OF ETHNICITY ON PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA FOR POST-OPERATIVE PAIN
Bernardo Ng

17

DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE AND PAIN MANAGEMENT FOR AMERICANS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
Joseph Telfair and Lori E.Crosby

18

UNAVAILABILITY OF PAIN MEDICINES IN MINORITY NEIGBORHOODS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Laura P. Gelfman and R. Sean Morrison

Cross-Cultural Management of Pain

19

DISPARITIES IN TREATMENT OF CANCER PAIN IN ETHNIC MINORITY PATIENTS
Karen O. Anderson

20

THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH: MANAGEMENT AMONG CULTURALLY DIVERSE WOMEN
Lynn Clark Callister

21

GENDER AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSES TO PAIN AND ITS TREATMENT
Burel R. Goodin, Kimberly Sibille, and Roger B. Fillingim

22

PAIN MANAGEMENT AMONG CHINESE-AMERICAN CANCER PATIENTS
Lara Dhingra, Graciete Lo, Victor T. Chang, and John Tsoi

23

PAIN AND AGING: MANAGING PAIN IN AN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE POPULATION
Cielito Reyes-Gibby and Guadalupe R. Palos

24

OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICANS: MANAGING PAIN AMONG THE UNDERSERVED AND MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
Carmen R. Green and Mythili Prabhu

Pharmacogenomics and Analgesic Drugs

25

INSENSITIVITY TO PAIN: LESSONS FROM RECENT GENETICS ADVANCES
Nancy Merner , Patrick A. Dion, Anna Szuto, and Guy A. Rouleau

26

OPIOID REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSES IN ASIANS
Anna Lee, Simon K.C. Chan, and Tony Gin

27

ETHNICITY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY IN PAIN
Keh-Ming Lin

Contextual Issues in Pain Medicine

28

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE APPROACH TO CHRONIC PAIN
Stephen Dahmer, Raymond Y.Teets, and Emilie Scott

29

PHYSICIANS' PERCEPTION OF PAIN AS RELATED TO EMPATHY, SYMPATHY AND THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM
Mohammadreza Hojat and Mitchell J.M. Cohen

30

PAIN, CULTURE, AND PATHWAYS TO CARE
Gurvinder Kalra, Susham Gupta, and Dinesh Bhugra

The Future of Analgesia in Diverse Populations

31

CULTURE, PHARMACOGENOMICS, AND PERSONALIZED ANALGESIA
Mario Incayawar and Knox H. Todd

REFERENCES

INDEX