Culture, Brain, and Analgesia

Professor Mario Incayawar is a Quichua physician-scientist and educator interested in social neuroscience of pain and analgesia and cultural psychiatry. He is the recipient of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2006. He has published extensively in English, French and Spanish. Dr. Todd received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and his MPH in Epidemiology from the UCLA School of Public Health. He began his academic career at Emory University in Atlanta and subsequently moved to New York where he joined the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and established the Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. In 2011, he became the founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

FOREWORD ; Armando Favazza ; PREFACE ; Mario Incayawar and Knox H. Todd ; CONTRIBUTORS ; 1 ; RELEVANCE OF PAIN AND ANALGESIA IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES ; Knox H. Todd and Mario Incayawar ; Cultural Modulation of Pain Experiences ; 2 ; A LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING PAIN IN THE MEDICAL ENCOUNTER ; Lise Bouchard ; 3 ; CULTURE, PLACEBO AND ANALGESIA: CLINICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ; Antonella Pollo, Elisa Carlino and Fabrizio Benedetti ; 4 ; PAIN IN CHILDREN ACROSS CULTURES ; Huda Abu-Saad Huijer ; 5 ; PAIN IN INDIAN CULTURE: CONCEPTUAL AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES ; Judy F. Pugh ; 6 ; INSIGHTS ON THE PAIN EXPERIENCE IN MEXICAN AMERICANS ; Evelyn Ruiz Calvillo ; 7 ; WE FEEL PAIN TOO: ASSERTING THE PAIN EXPERIENCE OF THE QUICHUA PEOPLE ; Mario Incayawar and Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard ; 8 ; ALLYING WITH CHINESE PARENTS FOR ENHANCED CONTROL OF PEDIATRIC POSTOPERATIVE PAIN ; He Hong-Gu and Katri Vehvilainen-Julkunen ; 9 ; UNDERSTANDING ANGLO-AMERICANS' CULTURE, PAIN AND SUFFERING ; Susan Sharp and Cheryl Koopman ; Culture and Pain Assessment ; 10 ; CROSS-CULTURAL USE AND VALIDITY OF PAIN SCALES AND QUESTIONNAIRES - NORWEGIAN CASE STUDY ; Hesook Suzie Kim, Donna Schwartz-Barcott and Inger Magrethe Holter ; 11 ; THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER: IMPLICATIONS FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT DISPARITIES ; Raymond Tait ; 12 ; SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF PAIN: PATIENTS, DENTISTS AND ETHNICITY ; Rod Moore ; Disparities and Inequities in Pain Management ; 13 ; IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT RACIAL AND ETHNIC BIAS AMONG PHYSICIANS ; Fatima Rodriguez and Alexander R. Green ; 14 ; ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PAIN MANAGEMENT ; Knox H. Todd and Mark J. Pletcher ; 15 ; PATIENT-PROVIDER ETHNIC CONCORDANCE IN PAIN CONTROL: NEGOTIATING THE INTANGIBLE BARRIER ; Salimah H. Meghani and Oren K. Isacoff ; 16 ; THE EFFECT OF ETHNICITY ON PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA FOR POST-OPERATIVE PAIN ; Bernardo Ng ; 17 ; DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE AND PAIN MANAGEMENT FOR AMERICANS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE ; Joseph Telfair and Lori Crosby ; 18 ; UNAVAILABILITY OF PAIN MEDICINES IN MINORITY NEIGBORHOODS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; Laura P. Gelfman and R. Sean Morrison ; Cross-Cultural Management of Pain ; 19 ; DISPARITIES IN TREATMENT OF CANCER PAIN IN ETHNIC MINORITY PATIENTS ; Karen O. Anderson ; 20 ; THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH: MANAGEMENT AMONG CULTURALLY DIVERSE WOMEN ; Lynn Clark Callister ; 21 ; GENDER AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSES TO PAIN AND ITS TREATMENT ; Burel R. Goodin, Kimberly Sibille and Roger B. Fillingim ; 22 ; PAIN MANAGEMENT AMONG CHINESE CANCER PATIENTS ; Lara Dhingra, Graciete Lo, Victor Chang and John Tsoi ; 23 ; PAIN AND AGING: MANAGING PAIN IN AN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE POPULATION ; Cielito Reyes-Gibby and Guadalupe R. Palos ; 24 ; OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICANS: MANAGING PAIN AMONG THE UNDERSERVED AND MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ; Carmen R. Green and Mythili Prabhu ; Pharmacogenomics and Analgesic Drugs ; 25 ; INSENSITIVITY TO PAIN: LESSONS FROM RECENT GENETICS ADVANCES ; Nancy Merner , Patrick A. Dion, Anna Szuto and Guy A. Rouleau ; 26 ; OPIOID REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSES IN ASIANS ; Anna Lee, Simon KC Chan and Tony Gin ; 27 ; ETHNICITY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY IN PAIN ; Keh-Ming Lin ; Contextual Issues in Pain Medicine ; 28 ; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE APPROACH TO CHRONIC PAIN ; Stephen Dahmer, Raymond Teets, and Emilie Scott ; 29 ; PHYSICIANS' PERCEPTION OF PAIN AS RELATED TO EMPATHY, SYMPATHY AND THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM ; Mohammadreza Hojat and Mitchell J.M. Cohen ; 30 ; PAIN, CULTURE AND PATHWAYS TO CARE ; Gurvinder Kalra, Susham Gupta and Dinesh Bhugra ; The Future of Analgesia in Diverse Populations ; 31 ; CULTURE, PHARMACOGENOMICS AND PERSONALIZED ANALGESIA ; Mario Incayawar and Knox H. Todd