Legal and ethical issues of using brain imaging to diagnose pain

Abstract. Pain, by definition, is a subjective experience, and as such its presence has usually been based on a self-report. However, limitations of self-reports for pain diagnostics, particularly for legal and insurance purposes, has led some to consider a brain-imaging–based objective measure of p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karen D. Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2016-10-01
Series:PAIN Reports
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000577