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