Rachael Gooberman-Hill
Rachael Gooberman-Hill
This article briefly introduces and discusses the value of ethnographic research, particularly research hailing from the discipline of social and cultural anthropology. After an introduction to ethnography in general, key ethnographic studi...
Janice M Morse
Janice M Morse
Qualitative methods provide us with techniques to access the pain experience of patients in ways that provide explanation for apparent contradictions and idiosyncrasies that are difficult to access. In this article, I review three such stra...
Felicia Cox
Felicia Cox
Pain services and palliative medicine - an integrated approach to pain management in the cancer patient [0.03%]
癌痛患者的综合镇痛策略与姑息治疗
Tony OBrien,Christopher M Kane
Tony OBrien
The vast majority of cancer patients will experience pain during the course of their illness. Thankfully, in most instances, the consistent application of analgesic guidelines, tailored to the unique needs of each individual patient, will d...
Cancer pain physiology [0.03%]
癌症疼痛生理学
Sarah Falk,Kirsty Bannister,Anthony H Dickenson
Sarah Falk
Mechanisms of inflammatory and neuropathic pains have been elucidated and translated to patient care by the use of animal models of these pain states. Cancer pain has lagged behind since early animal models of cancer-induced bone pain were ...
Pain in cancer survivors [0.03%]
癌症幸存者的疼痛感
Matthew Rd Brown,Juan D Ramirez,Paul Farquhar-Smith
Matthew Rd Brown
Cancer and its treatment exert a heavy psychological and physical toll. Of the myriad symptoms which result, pain is common, encountered in between 30% and 60% of cancer survivors. Pain in cancer survivors is a major and growing problem, im...
Splice variation of the mu-opioid receptor and its effect on the action of opioids [0.03%]
μ-阿片受体的拼接变异及其对吗啡类药物作用的影响
Sophy K Gretton,Joanne Droney
Sophy K Gretton
An individual's response to opioids is influenced by a complex combination of genetic, molecular and phenotypic factors.Intra- and inter-individual variations in response to mu opioids have led to the suggestion that mu-opioid receptor subt...
Felicia Cox
Felicia Cox