- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Relevance of Pain and Analgesia in Multicultural Societies
- 2 A Linguistic Approach for Understanding Pain in the Medical Encounter
- 3 Culture, Placebo, and Analgesia
- 4 Pain in Children across Cultures
- 5 Pain in Indian Culture
- 6 Insights on the Pain Experience in Mexican Americans
- 7 We Feel Pain Too
- 8 Allying with Chinese Parents for Enhanced Control of Pediatric Postoperative Pain
- 9 Understanding Anglo-Americans’ Culture, Pain, and Suffering
- 10 Cross-cultural Use and Validity of Pain Scales and Questionnaires—Norwegian Case Study
- 11 The Clinical Encounter
- 12 Social Contexts of Pain
- 13 Implicit and Explicit Ethnic Bias among Physicians
- 14 Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Pain Management
- 15 Patient-Provider Ethnic Concordance in Pain Control: Negotiating the Intangible Barrier
- 16 The Effect Of Ethnicity On Prescriptions For Patient-Controlled Analgesia For Post-operative Pain
- 17 Disparities in Health Care and Pain Management for Americans with Sickle Cell Disease
- 18 Unavailability of Pain Medicines in Minority Neighborhoods and Developing Countries
- 19 Disparities in Treatment of Cancer Pain in Ethnic Minority Patients
- 20 The Pain of Childbirth
- 21 Gender and Ethnic Differences in Responses to Pain and Its Treatment
- 22 Pain Management Among Chinese American Cancer Patients
- 23 Pain and Aging
- 24 Older African-Americans
- 25 Insensitivity to Pain
- 26 Opioid Requirements and Responses in Asians
- 27 Ethnicity and Psychopharmacotherapy in Pain
- 28 Integrative Medicine Approach to Chronic Pain
- 29 Physicians’ Perception of Pain as Related to Empathy, Sympathy and the Mirror-Neuron System
- 30 Pain, Culture, and Pathways to Care
- 31 Culture, Pharmacogenomics, and Personalized Analgesia
- Index
(p. 61) We Feel Pain Too: Asserting the Pain Experience of the Quichua People
- Chapter:
- (p. 61) We Feel Pain Too: Asserting the Pain Experience of the Quichua People
- Author(s):
Mario Incayawar
and Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199768875.003.0007
It is in part to start to fill this gap in cultural understanding that Dr. Incayawar conducted this first study discussed in the present chapter. He and his team surveyed the Quichua people of the Rumipamba area, southeast of the town of Ibarra, the capital of the Imbabura province in the northern highlands of Ecuador. Their goal was to explore the Quichuas’ pain experiences—more precisely how they perceive, describe, and cope with pain. The Quichuas are demographically the most important Amerindian nation in South America. This unique exploratory description of pain experiences in the Andes should therefore be relevant for the culturally sensitive pain clinician.
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- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Relevance of Pain and Analgesia in Multicultural Societies
- 2 A Linguistic Approach for Understanding Pain in the Medical Encounter
- 3 Culture, Placebo, and Analgesia
- 4 Pain in Children across Cultures
- 5 Pain in Indian Culture
- 6 Insights on the Pain Experience in Mexican Americans
- 7 We Feel Pain Too
- 8 Allying with Chinese Parents for Enhanced Control of Pediatric Postoperative Pain
- 9 Understanding Anglo-Americans’ Culture, Pain, and Suffering
- 10 Cross-cultural Use and Validity of Pain Scales and Questionnaires—Norwegian Case Study
- 11 The Clinical Encounter
- 12 Social Contexts of Pain
- 13 Implicit and Explicit Ethnic Bias among Physicians
- 14 Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Pain Management
- 15 Patient-Provider Ethnic Concordance in Pain Control: Negotiating the Intangible Barrier
- 16 The Effect Of Ethnicity On Prescriptions For Patient-Controlled Analgesia For Post-operative Pain
- 17 Disparities in Health Care and Pain Management for Americans with Sickle Cell Disease
- 18 Unavailability of Pain Medicines in Minority Neighborhoods and Developing Countries
- 19 Disparities in Treatment of Cancer Pain in Ethnic Minority Patients
- 20 The Pain of Childbirth
- 21 Gender and Ethnic Differences in Responses to Pain and Its Treatment
- 22 Pain Management Among Chinese American Cancer Patients
- 23 Pain and Aging
- 24 Older African-Americans
- 25 Insensitivity to Pain
- 26 Opioid Requirements and Responses in Asians
- 27 Ethnicity and Psychopharmacotherapy in Pain
- 28 Integrative Medicine Approach to Chronic Pain
- 29 Physicians’ Perception of Pain as Related to Empathy, Sympathy and the Mirror-Neuron System
- 30 Pain, Culture, and Pathways to Care
- 31 Culture, Pharmacogenomics, and Personalized Analgesia
- Index
