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Pain, Neurotechnology, and the Treatment-enhancement Debate
In chronic pain (intractable pain) management, protocols for the use of medical interventions should be frequently assessed, revised, and followed by reflective evaluation and prudent governance to establish guidelines and policies. Article discusses ethics of pain treatments.
Realizing the “Promise” of Pain Management and Palliative Care
Article includes a discussion of realizing the “promise” of pain management and palliative care. Considerations for practice, ethics, and policy are also highlighted.
Neurotechnology, Evidence, and Ethics
Article highlights neurotechnology, evidence, and ethics, including the stewardship and the good in research and practice for chronic pain.
Balancing Evidence, Efficacy and Stakeholder Values in Practical Pain Care
A New Year: Facing Durable Challenges and Tasks In this issue of Practical Pain Management, Prof. Peter Moskovitz addresses the complexities, issues, and problems that arise in, and from, the diagnosis and treatment of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).1 As Prof.
Neuroethics at the Close of the Decade of Pain Control and Research
Article discusses the changing views in neuroethics at the close of the decade for pain control and research.
The Experience of Pain
At the intersection of these two events—the current debate on health care reform and recent publications of evidence-based guidelines—author raises several questions about good healthcare and evidence-based medicine for chronic pain.
Pain Care of Severely Neurally-Compromised Patients
Practical and ethical considerations are discussed in this article in regard to pain care of severely neurally compromised patients.
Anticipating Biotechnological Trends in Pain Care
Biotechnological advances are changing how chronic pain patients are treated. Review developments in the pain field.
Ethics, Pain Care, and Obama’s Policy Intentions
Essay on healthcare reform in America: As Congress continues to modify health care legislation in the Fall of 2009, they should (if not must) consider funding a deeper and wider scope of pain care options, including the apt use of new techniques and technologies and the re-constitution of multi-disciplinary pain care facilities.
Ethics, Education, and Policy: Relationship and Mutual Reliance
From Science and Philosophy to Ethics Over the past years, I have tried to illustrate how the problem(s) of pain, and intricacies of pain care, reflect profound philosophical issues and questions that are important to both the anthropologic applications of medicine, and the ethics necessary to navigate the moral terrain of medical practice.
Intellectual and Moral Tasks in Intersection—Part 2
Information, Consent, Autonomy, and Agency
Intellectual and Moral Tasks in Intersection – Part 1
Assessing the experience of pain: making the subjective objectively appreciable.
Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy, and Neuroethics of Pain, Pain Care, and Policy (N3P3)
Article highlights neuroscience, neurophilosophy, and neuroethics of pain, pain care, and policy. Includes discussion of program, purpose, and process in pain management.
What a Decade of the Mind Affords the Decade of Pain Control and Research
Article gives an overview of a retrospective observational study of patients with unresolved wrist pain, which noted improvements in many quality of life parameters after Hackett-Hemwall dextrose prolotherapy.
Toward a Neuroethics of Pain Medicine
Pain medicine must continue to progress to meet the challenges posed by advances in scientific understanding and technology and ever-widening philosophical and ethical issues and imperatives arising from them.