Paradigm of pain in the birth sphere

Title: Paradigm of pain in the birth sphere
Creator: Newnham, Liz; Whitburn, Laura; Jones, Lester
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165200-10
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2022
Description: It is challenging to understand someone else’s pain and predict its efect on them. With increasing questions about the relationship between pain and tissue damage, pain is now understood to be complex, individual, contextual and subjective experience that defes objective evaluation (Whitburn 2013). It is the result of complex central processing, largely attributed to the brain. Pain emerges when this complex processing identifes the need for a person to address a threat to safety, and is shaped by sensory, emotional, cognitive and social inputs. Pain triggers us to take notice of our body and our environment and motivates us to do something to either protect ourselves or escape, or alert others of our plight (Whitburn 2013).
Subject: pain; brain; protect; escape
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1475705
Identifier: uon:49632
Identifier: ISBN:9780367760359
Language: eng

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