Pain Neuroethics and Bioethics

Book excerpt: The treatment of pain and scientific pursuits to understand the mechanisms underlying pain raise many ethical, legal, and social issues. For the first time, this edited volume brings together content experts in the fields of pain, pediatrics, neuroscience, brain imaging, bioethics, health humanities, and the law to provide insight into the timely topic of pain neuroethics. This landmark volume of the state of the art exploration of pain neuroethics will be a must read for those interested in the ethical issues in pain research, treatment, and management. - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors - Represents the first release in the Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics series - The content includes representatives from a diversity of disciplines