Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience.

Stephen Buetow is Associate Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

1.Introduction Part I-The need for change 2.Disenchantment with current pain management 3.Clinicians come second Part II-Person-centredness, meaning and unpleasantness 4.Person-centred health care and pain 5.Pain and meaning 6.Pain and (un)pleasantness Part III- Moving forward 7.Around pain: Constructing fuzzy realities 8.Through pain: Bearing its load 9.Into pain: Surfing the wave of enlivenment 10.Above pain: Flying with Air transcendence 11.Implications for pain management