Ethnicity and pain: A biocultural model

Bates, Maryann S.

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(87)90138-9

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“…Implicit in many considerations of sociocultural influences on pain is the presupposition that sociocultural factors primarily alter pain expression rather than the underlying experience of pain. However, two decades ago, Bates (1987;1993) proposed a "biocultural" model of pain, which recognizes that developmentally conferred cultural processes (e.g. language, pain-related attitudes and beliefs, social learning) influence not only verbal and nonverbal pain expressions but also affect pain processing at the neurobiological level.…”

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Ethnic identity predicts experimental pain sensitivity in African Americans and Hispanics

Rahim-Williams¹,

Riley²,

Herrera³

et al. 2007

Pain

224

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The aim of this study was to examine experimental pain sensitivity in three ethnic groups, African Americans, Hispanic Americans and non-Hispanic whites, and to determine whether ethnic identity is differentially associated with pain sensitivity across ethnic groups. Participants included sixtythree African American, sixty-one Hispanic and eighty-two non-Hispanic white participants who were assessed using three experimental pain measures: thermal, cold-pressor and ischemic. Participants' ethnic identity was assessed using the Multi-group Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM). Ethnic group differences in pain responses were observed, with African American and Hispanic subjects showing lower cold and heat pain tolerances than non-Hispanic whites. In addition, pain range (i.e. tolerance -threshold) was computed for heat, cold and ischemic pain, and the two minority groups again had lower values compared to non-Hispanic whites. Ethnic identity was associated with pain range only for African American and Hispanic groups. Statistically controlling for ethnic identity rendered some of the group differences in pain range non-significant. These findings indicate that ethnic identity is associated with pain sensitivity in ethnic minority groups, and may partially mediate group differences in pain perception. The results of the present investigation provide evidence of ethnic group differences in responses to experimental pain across multiple noxious stimuli, with both minority groups exhibiting greater sensitivity to laboratory evoked pain compared to non-Hispanic whites.

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Ethnic identity predicts experimental pain sensitivity in African Americans and Hispanics

Rahim-Williams¹,

Riley²,

Herrera³

et al. 2007

Pain

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169

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“…Subsequent multidimensional social ecology models include the effects of social learning, pain experiences, and other influencing factors. 123,124 Figure 4 shows a proposed model for understanding and studying children's pain responses specifically to procedures. This framework integrates individual determinants present before the procedure with procedure-related factors into a model that incorporates the gate control theory.…”

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Pediatric procedural pain

Young¹

2005

Annals of Emergency Medicine

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“…I would also like to acknowledge Arthur Kleinman for his comments on the paper, and Vandana Goswami, Vasavi Gowda, and Khalida Zaki for our discussions about "pain" in South Asia. 2 Anthropological studies on ethnicity and pain behavior include Zborowski (1952Zborowski ( , 1969; Sargent (1984); Bates (1987). Wolff and Langley (1968) and Lipton and Marbach (1984) contain useful bibliographies on this aspect of pain research.…”

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The semantics of pain in Indian culture and medicine

Pugh

1991

Cult Med Psych

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An interpretive perspective offers a counterpoint to the behavioral orientation in the social scientific literature on pain. The present paper develops a meaning-centered approach which focuses on three interconnected aspects of the experience of suffering: (1) the cultural construction of pain sensation; (2) the semiotics of pain expression; (3) the structure of pain's causes and cures. These connections are explored through a variety of linguistic and semiotic forms, including metaphors, etymologies, gestural codes, taxonomies, and semantic networks. The study of metaphor has special value in revealing the cultural construction of pain, especially its sensory qualities, such as temperature, weight, and movement. The concept of semantic network provides a complementary tool for understanding pain experience; the analysis makes pain sensation the center of the network and argues that multiple meanings attach to this sensory core. The paper examines these perspectives in the context of North Indian culture and medicine, specifically Unani Tibb, or Greco-Arab medicine. Pursuing questions of the "fit" between everyday belief and traditional medicine, the essay traces continuities in the "language of pain" in North Indian culture, classical Unani Tibb, and contemporary Unani clinical practice.

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Ethnicity and pain: A biocultural model

Cited by 96 publications

References 17 publications

Ethnic identity predicts experimental pain sensitivity in African Americans and Hispanics

Ethnic identity predicts experimental pain sensitivity in African Americans and Hispanics

Pediatric procedural pain

The semantics of pain in Indian culture and medicine

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