1 March 2008
PAIN: The power and the pain (Part 1 of 2)
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BBC Baghdad correspondent Andrew North was struck down with a debilitating illness after reporting on the US invasion in Iraq, paralysed with acute pain as his immune system attacked his nervous system. After witnessing pain in so many others, he was forced to confront his own. Over two programs, Andrew explores the perplexing experience of pain. In Part 1 - how power, or lack of it, shapes an individual's experience. All in the Mind's podcast this week features The Nature of Consciousness Debate with Paul Davies, Susan Blackmore and David Chalmers.
Transcript
Transcript
Please note that the podcast and transcript of the 2 part series, Pain, can't be published because of BBC copyright arrangements.
You can download or stream the audio of the series from the BBC's website here though.
Our podcast this week is a popular series from our archives not available as podcast before: The Nature of Consciousness Debate with Paul Davies, Susan Blackmore and David Chalmers. Enjoy!
Guests
Luis Manos
Survivor of torture under Pinochet regime in Chili
Samir Ibrahim
Survivor of Torture
Iraq
Allan Basbaum
Editor in Chief - Pain (journal)
Professor and chairman
Department of Anatomy
University of Califonia at San Francisco
http://anatomy.ucsf.edu/BasbaumFaculty6.html
Dr Amanda Williams
Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology
University of London
http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/Staff-Lists/MemberDetails.php?Title=Dr&FirstName=Amanda%20C%20de%20C&LastName=Williams
Maribel Junandez
Religious devotee, Mexico
Annette Williamson
Lives with chronic pain
Magnus Backstedt
Swedish professional cyclist
http://www.magnusbackstedt.com/
Further Information
Website for this 2 part series from the BBC World Service (includes audio)
IASP - International Association for the Study of Pain
Full All in the Mind interview with Professor Pat Wall
Pat Wall: "Pain Man of the Century"
First broadcast on ABC Radio National's All in the Mind in April 2003
It hurts: The Elusive Nature of Pain [first broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2006]
ABC Health and Wellbeing (the ABC's online gateway to health)
Survivors of Torture, International
The Forum for Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
Includes links in each Australian state
http://www.fasstt.org.au/members/index.php.
Publications
Title: Manage Your Pain - Practical and Positive Ways to Adapt to Chronic Pain
Author: Michael Nicholas
Publisher: ABC Books, 2000
Presenter
Natasha Mitchell
Producer
Natasha Mitchell/Anita Barraud
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