Pain, Disability, and Art: A Response to Verpaelst

Authors

  • Devan Stahl Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, College of Human Medicine, East Fee Hall, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7202/1044292ar

Keywords:

chronic pain, suffering, disability, art therapy, medicine

Language(s):

English

Abstract

Pain is inherently subjective and culturally mitigated and so it is difficult to measure and mitigate. Art creation has the ability to be therapeutic to persons in chronic pain.

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Published

2016-10-05

Issue

Vol. 5 (2016)

Section

"Response to" Commentaries

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Devan Stahl

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