Seeing Pain: From Hippocrates to the 21st Century
Date: 17 February 2011 Seeing Pain: From Hippocrates to the 21st Century by Sander L Gilman (Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University and Visiting Research Professor of European Studies, The University of Hong Kong )
Abstract: Pain is one of the most difficult categories in medicine. Hippocrates wrestled with its meanings but only after the 18th century does the question of its "nature" become a means by which the complex inner relationship of the body and the mind are explored. In the 21st century the question of "seeing pain," one which Greek medicine thought it had answered, has reappeared as a litmus test for the very nature of the medical project. The history of seeing pain will be examined with an eye towards the claims and pitfalls of diagnosis in medicine, including in psychiatry. The event was co-hosted by: For further enquiries, please contact Dr Barbara Dalle Pezze. |
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