Pain and Its Transformations : The Interface of Biology and Culture

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(16) Sarah Coakley Opening Remarks: Pain and Experience 17(10) Arthur Kleinman Response: Enabling Strategies---A Great Problem Is Not Enough 21(6) Anne Harrington PART I Pain at the Interface of Biology and Culture Deconstructing Pain: A Deterministic Dissection of the Molecular Basis of Pain 27(9) Clifford J. Woolf Setting the Stage for Pain: Allegorical Tales from Neuroscience 36(41) Howard L. Fields Response: Is Pain Differentially Embodied? 62(2) Anne Harrington Response: Pain and the Embodiment of Culture 64(3) Elaine Scarry Discussion: Is There Life Left in the Gate Control Theory? 67(3) Discussion: The Success of Reductionism in Pain Treatment 70(7) PART II Beyond ``Coping'': Religious Practices of Transformation Palliative or Intensification? Pain and Christian Contemplation in the Spirituality of the Sixteenth-Century Carmelites 77(24) Sarah Coakley Pain and the Suffering Consciousness: The Alleviation of Suffering in Buddhist Discourse 101(46) Luis O. Gomez Response: The Incommensurable Richness of ``Experience'' 122(4) Arthur Kleinman Response: The Theology of Pain and Suffering in the Jewish Tradition 126(7) Jon D. Levenson Discussion: The ``Relaxation Response''---Can It Explain Religious Transformation? 133(5) Discussion: Reductionism and the Separation of ``Suffering'' and ``Pain'' 138(3) Discussion: The Instrumentality of Pain in Christianity and Buddhism 141(6) PART III Grief and Pain: The Mediation of Pain in Music Voice, Metaphysics, and Community: Pain and Transformation in the Finnish-Karelian Ritual Lament 147(19) Elizabeth Tolbert Music, Trancing, and the Absence of Pain 166(55) Judith Becker Response: Music as Ecstasy and Music as Trance 195(4) John C. M. Brust Response: Thinking about Music and Pain 199(9) Kay Kaufman Shelemay Discussion: The Presentation and Representation of Emotion in Music 208(2) Discussion: Neurobiological Views of Music, Emotion, and the Body 210(7) Discussion: Ritual and Expectation 217(4) PART IV Pain, Ritual, and the Somatomoral: Beyond the Individual Pain and Humanity in the Confucian Learning of the Heart-and-Mind 221(24) Tu Weiming Response: Reflections from Psychiatry on Emergent Mind and Empathy 242(3) Laurence J. Kirmayer Painful Memories: Ritual and the Transformation of Community Trauma 245(34) Jennifer Cole Response: Collective Memory as a Witness to Collective Pain 267(4) Stanley Tambiah Discussion: Pain, Healing, and Memory 271(8) PART V Pain as Isolation or Community? Literary and Aesthetic Representations Among Schoolchildren: The Use of Body Damage to Express Physical Pain 279(38) Elaine Scarry The Poetics of Anesthesia: Representations of Pain in the Literatures of Classical India 317(46) Martha Ann Selby Response: Doubleness, matam, and Muharram Drumming in South Asia 331(20) Richard K. Wolf Discussion: The Dislocation, Representation, and Communication of Pain 351(12) PART VI When Is Pain Not Suffering and Suffering Not Pain? Self, Ethics, and Transcendence On the Cultural Mediation of Pain 363(43) Laurence J. Kirmayer Discussion: The Notion of Face 402(4) The Place of Pain in the Space of Good and Evil 406(17) Nicholas Wolterstorff Response: The Problem of Action 420(3) Charles Hallisey Afterword 423(6) Sarah Coakley Contributors 429(2) Figure Credits 431(2) Index 433