Pain: Defining Something That is Sometimes Indefinable
from Evidence in Motion
How do you define pain? Do we need a new definition? This is a thought question recently published in Pain by Amanda Williams and Kenneth Craig in November of 2016. The current definition of pain found in the IASP Taxonomy is: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.”
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