Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newer model the point of the perception of pain is not the mid-point of the spinal cord but the brain itself. According to this theory, the pain impulse doesn t go through a gate. In fact, it doesn t go anywhere. It is produced where it is perceived: in the brain. The stimulus arriving from the sensory nerve alerts the brain, which produces the pain experience on its own. The pain perceptions are like the tracks on a record or compact disk, waiting to be "played." The arrival of the nerve stimulus, as Gawande writes, simply hits the play...
...Whichever model one accepts, it is hard to deny the importance of emotional and mental factors in pain. Professor Anne Harrington of Harvard s History of Science Department has written extensively on the cultural and scientific nuances of pain. For her there is no doubt that pain is "mutable" and "porous to cultural expectations." Indeed, "The idea of a context-free human biology is an outmoded proposition...
...fist actually makes contact. Or, alternately, someone might be so ticklish that they don t even need to be touched to cringe. Even if they don t produce pain on their own, these neural patterns can "lower the stimulus intensity so that normally innocuous stimuli produce pain." In this model, Harvard students, aware of what they see as impending danger of RSI, might jump the gun and anticipate the pain. This would fit what Suleiman described as the almost faddish nature of the disorder, its "trendiness." Students made hyper-aware of the dangers of RSI from a sudden rash...
...provides bullet-point recommendations to change the HUPD "from a reactive law enforcement model...to a community, team-policing model...
...that is, this superficial cost-benefit analysis is wrong, and the grasseous benefits do outweigh the pain-in-the-asseous costs. Giving Harvard the benefit of the doubt, there must be some intangible attributes of the grass not captured in the it's-a-pain, what's-the-point model...