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by Melanie Thernstrom


  Southern Medical and Surgical Journal

  Southey, Robert

  Spanish Inquisition

  spinal cord; cervical spondylosis; injury

  spinal stenosis

  SSRIs, see Prozac; Zoloft

  Stanford Five

  Stanford University

  starvation

  sterilization

  steroids; side effects

  Stoics

  stomach ulcers

  Stone, Reverend Edmund

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  stress; fight-or-flight response; hormones; management

  stress-induced descending analgesia

  strokes

  substance abuse

  suffering; deliberate creation of; religion and

  suicide

  Sumerians

  “super-aspirin”

  surgery; acupuncture and; botched; development of anesthesia; mesmerism and; pain syndromes; without anesthesia

  swearing, effect on pain of

  Syme, James

  syphilis

  T

  Taddio, Anna

  Tel Aviv University

  telic centralizing

  telic decentralizing

  tendons

  tension myositis syndrome, see TMS

  thalamus

  ThermaCare

  Thomas à Kempis

  Thomas Aquinas

  thoracotomy

  tissue damage

  titrating to effect

  TMJ (myogenous temporomandibular joint disorder)

  TMS

  toothaches

  Topham, William

  torture; Bush administration policy on; Nazis and

  Tracey, Irene

  traction

  tramadol

  trazodone

  trepanation

  trial by ordeal

  trigeminal neuralgia

  tuberculosis

  tumors, brain

  Tylenol

  U

  ulcers

  unequal treatment of pain; pain sensitivity and

  University of California, San Diego

  University of California, San Francisco

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  V

  Valium

  Velpeau, Alfred

  Vicodin

  Victoria, Queen of England

  Victorian era

  Vioxx

  vision

  W

  Wall, Patrick David

  war

  Warren, John Collins

  Washington, George

  waterboarding

  Wellbutrin

  Wells, Horace

  Werner, Anne

  whimpering

  “why me?” question

  willow bark

  Wilson, George

  Wilson, Holly

  wine

  Winter, Alison, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  women; childbirth; doctors and; pain sensitivity; pain tolerance; pain treatment and

  Woodrow, Kenneth M.

  Woolf, Clifford

  Woolf, Virginia

  worms

  Z

  Zen

  Zoloft

  Zomig

  Zubieta, Jon-Kar

  Zurich

 

 

 


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