Hi Phyllis, My daughter lives with chronic pain and fatigue as part of autonomic nervous system dysfunction. The medical professionals who work with patients living with different kinds of chronic pain get better at describing the experiences--partly as a way of being able to communicate what seems to help and what doesn't. Our pain management doctors recommended the following:
Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain: A Pediatrician's Guide for Reclaiming a Normal Childhood by Lonnie K., M.D. Zeltzer, Christina Blackett Schlank My daughter is now two years down this track. We are writing a paper on chronic pain together for a collection of essays on disability ethics. When it is finished, I'd be happy to share it. If you'd like to talk about our experiences and what we've learned about how to put together a team to sort out what helps and what doesn't, I'd be happy to talk off-list. --Jeff Jeff Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 ________________________________________ From: Phyllis Chiasson [ath...@olympus.net] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 9:36 PM To: Peirce List Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Semiotics and communication of pain Listers, A subject has recently entered my personal awareness (experientially, unfortunately) and I'm wondering if there is anyone working on the difficult problem of effective communication and effective reception of the communication of pain. I have the book, The Body in Pain, which tackles the problem, but my personal experience has been that neither that book, nor the simple 1-10 pain scale used at hospitals is accurate. I think it is a problem of qualitative induction for which analogy may be useful. Is anyone working on this? If so, I'd like to share thoughts on this subject. Regards, Phyllis Chiasson
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