Volume III Topic: Meanings of pain in vulnerable or special patient groups
Series Editor: Dr Simon van Rysewyk
Publisher: Springer
The Meanings of Pain book series describes how the meaning of pain changes pain experience – and people – over time.
Pain in the moment is experienced as immediately distressing or unpleasant. If pain persists over time, more complex meanings about the long-term consequences, or burden of pain, can develop. These meanings can include existential meanings such as despair or loneliness that focus on the person with pain, rather than pain itself.
Meanings of Pain offers a vocabulary of language about pain and meaning. An objective of the series is to stimulate self-reflection on how to use information about meaning in clinical and non-clinical pain settings. The book series is intended for people with pain, family members or caregivers of people with pain, clinicians, researchers, advocates, and policy makers.
Although chronic pain can affect anyone, there are some groups of people for whom particular clinical support and understanding is urgently needed. This applies to “vulnerable” or “special” groups of people and to the question of what pain means to them.
Volume III focuses on describing the meanings of pain in groups of “vulnerable” or “special” people, such as:
- Infants or children
- Women
- Older adults
- People with a physical or intellectual disability
- People with a brain injury
- People diagnosed with a disease
- Veterans
- Athletes
- Workers
- Addicts
- People with mental illness or mental disorders
- Homeless people
- People in rural or remote communities
- People in multicultural communities
- Indigenous peoples
Invited chapter types
The editor Dr Simon van Rysewyk invites contributions for Volume III on the meanings of pain in vulnerable or special patient groups. The following manuscript types will be considered:
- Original Research (e.g., original clinical, translational, or theoretical research)
- Reviews (e.g., Systematic Reviews, Meta-analytic reviews, Cochrane type reviews, Pragmatic Reviews)
Authors interested in submitting a chapter for publication in Volume III are invited to submit a 350-word Abstract, which includes the name and contact information of the corresponding author, to:
Dr Simon van Rysewyk
simon.vanrysewyk@utas.edu.au
Abstract Deadline: closed
“It is my opinion that this … work will stand as the definitive reference work in this field. I believe it will enrich the professional and personal lives of health care providers, researchers and people who have persistent pain and their family members. The combination of framework chapters with chapters devoted to analysing the lived experience of pain conditions gives the requisite breadth and depth to the subject.” – Dr Marc A. Russo, MBBS DA(UK) FANZCA FFPMANZCA, Newcastle, Australia, from the Foreword in Volume II
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