Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Pain (Progress in Pain Research and Management Series)

This volume includes plenary papers and selected abstracts from free communications presented at the 7th World Congress on Pain, held August 22-27, 1993, in Paris, France. Main session topics include: psychologic factors related to chronic pain; the nociceptor as a dynamic entity; central nervous system plasticity: implications for pain perception; neuropathic pain; opioids and analgesia; pharmacology of pain control; headache; central pain; nociceptive processing; pain and age. Special topics include: the pharmacology of pain: twenty-five years of hope, despair, and hope; death of pain: pain, suffering, and ethics; the World Health Organization program in cancer pain relief and palliative care; pain management: quality assurance and changing practice; and perspectives on management of back pain in primary care.

Gerald. F. Gebhart, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Center for Pain Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.
Donna L. Hammond, PhD, is Professor at University of Iowa.
Troels Staehelin Jensen, MD, DMSc, is a Consultant in Neurology at Aarhus University Hospital and Professor of Experimental and Clinical Pain Research at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, and director of the Neuropathic Pain Clinic.