Talk:Pain

I think the idea of having a lead article "Pain" which stands independantly, yet links into all the subjects you mention is brilliant. Why don't you start writing "Pain" as an article. I am not foresighted enough to see all the links, but I do know that there are several of us active on the wiki that are flexible and collegial and can, hopefully, collaborate on such a spectrum of articles. I like to think of Citizendium as primarily focused for the user- and what I love about your "Pain1" is that it introduces the complexity of the subject in, to fall back on a cliche- a very "user friendly" manner. I do not have the focus at the moment to go through in detail, but my general impression is extremely favorable. I would be honored to help author once you start the article. Thanks for showing this to me. Nancy Nancy Sculerati MD 18:54, 9 February 2007 (CST)

Pain in infants and children

I would appreciate including this topic. I have been beside myself too many times battling the fixed idea of many people that somebody too young to verbally complain 'feels no pain'. Nancy Sculerati MD 08:00, 10 February 2007 (CST)

Now in Main article space

My own idea is that of a "cycle" of articles, integrated yet each one stand-alone, so that the reader may over time get an overview of the importance of the subject to humans. One would like all the add-ons that persons think should be there recorded somewhere. At present this is at the end of the article, but a "topic suggestion" sub-page may work better. I see the Category tags don't work, so I will just delete the lot (except CZ live, of course :-))- I do not think they help much anyway. I would rather ask at the specific workgroups (e.g. philosophy, healing arts) if there are persons with an interest in contributing. --Christo Muller 12:56, 12 February 2007 (CST)

I think you've nade a really lovely start. If I may I'd suggest that the article could benefit from a few engaging illustrative examples, in other words I'd look, for this "gateway" article, to highlighting just a few things that make this such an interesting and important (and intriguing) topic, and which might be linked to illustrations. 1) Phantom limb pain 2) The ability to overcome extreme pain in extreme circumstances (- there are many remarkable examples of this, including in citations for valor) 3) Syndome of insensitivity to pain is sad and remarkable, and could be expanded on to stress the important adaptive function of pain. 4) The gate theory of pain? Gareth Leng 07:56, 22 February 2007 (CST)

meanings of pain

When you talk about the few individuals who don't feel pain, it highlights a choice that I think has to be made in this article- and that is "pain" as opposed to other (painful :-)) forms of discomfort. I am aware that they are all related, but-for example, whereas somebody with Familial Dysutonomia does not feel pain, they do still experience discomfort in other ways. I'm not sure I understand the focus.I mean- nobody is born unable to feel any type of pain including emotional anguish unless they are so low functioning to be essentially brain dead. Nancy Sculerati MD 09:04, 22 February 2007 (CST)