Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 Opening Remarks: Pain and Experience 17
6. Response: Enabling Strategies—A Great Problem Is Not Enough 21
7. PART I Pain at the Interface of Biology and Culture
8. 3 Deconstructing Pain: A Deterministic Dissection of the Molecular Basis of Pain 27
9. 4 Setting the Stage for Pain: Allegorical Tales from Neuroscience 36
10. Response: Is Pain Differentially Embodied? 62
11. Response: Pain and the Embodiment of Culture 64
12. Discussion: Is There Life Left in the Gate Control Theory? 67
13. Discussion: The Success of Reductionism in Pain Treatment 70
14. PART II Beyond “Coping”: Religious Practices of Transformation
15. 5 Palliative or Intensification? Pain and Christian Contemplation in the Spirituality of the Sixteenth-Century Carmelites 77
16. 6 Pain and the Suffering Consciousness: The Alleviation of Suffering in Buddhist Discourse 101
17. Response: The Incommensurable Richness of “Experience” 122
18. Response: The Theology of Pain and Suffering in the Jewish Tradition 126
19. Discussion: The “Relaxation Response”—Can It Explain Religious Transformation? 133
20. Discussion: Reductionism and the Separation of “Suffering” and “Pain” 138
21. Discussion: The Instrumentality of Pain in Christianity and Buddhism 141
22. PART III Grief and Pain: The Mediation of Pain in Music
23. 7 Voice, Metaphysics, and Community: Pain and Transformation in the Finnish-Karelian Ritual Lament 147
24. 8 Music, Trancing, and the Absence of Pain 166
25. Response: Music as Ecstasy and Music as Trance 195
26. Response: Thinking about Music and Pain 199
27. Discussion: The Presentation and Representation of Emotion in Music 208
28. Discussion: Neurobiological Views of Music, Emotion, and the Body 210
29. Discussion: Ritual and Expectation 217
30. PART IV Pain, Ritual, and the Somatomoral: Beyond the Individual
31. 9 Pain and Humanity in the Confucian Learning of the Heart-and-Mind 221
32. Response: Reflections from Psychiatry on Emergent Mind and Empathy 242
33. 10 Painful Memories: Ritual and the Transformation of Community Trauma 245
34. Response: Collective Memory as a Witness to Collective Pain 267
35. Discussion: Pain, Healing, and Memory 271
36. PART V Pain as Isolation or Community? Literary and Aesthetic Representations
37. 11 Among Schoolchildren: The Use of Body Damage to Express Physical Pain 279
38. 12 The Poetics of Anesthesia: Representations of Pain in the Literatures of Classical India 317
39. Response: Doubleness, matam, and Muharram Drumming in South Asia 331
40. Discussion: The Dislocation, Representation, and Communication of Pain 351
41. PART VI When Is Pain Not Suffering and Suffering Not Pain? Self, Ethics, and Transcendence
42. 13 On the Cultural Mediation of Pain 363
43. Discussion: The Notion of Face 402
44. 14 The Place of Pain in the Space of Good and Evil 406
45. Response: The Problem of Action 420
46. 15 Afterword 423
47. Contributors 429
48. Figure Credits 431
49. Index 433