Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care

Rhonda Moore, PhD is a Medical Anthropologist and Social Scientist  She received her doctoral degree in cultural and medical anthropology from Stanford University and completed her post-doctoral fellowships in behavioral science from Stanford Medical School and in epidemiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Moore has edited or co-edited three other books for Springer: Cancer, Culture and Communication (2004), Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain (2009), and Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care,First Edition (2013). Her primary research interests are biobehavioral mechanisms of health and disease in cancer and pain, patient reported outcomes, qualitative methods, bioethics of privacy and security,  and health disparities and vulnerable populations with special attention to chronic pain and palliative care.

• Biopsychosocial approaches to understanding chronic pain and disability.- Communication and Pain.- Pain and intercultural communication.- Truth telling and palliative care.- Communiatona nd palliative care: e-health interventions and pain management.- Educating patients and caregivers about pain management: what clinicians need to know.- Assessment of Pain.- Pain assessment tools in palliative cancer care.- Quality indicators for pain in palliative care.- Palliative care clinical trials: generalizability and applicability in hospice and palliative care practice.- Dynamic pain assessment: an application of clinical infometrics in personalized pain treatment and management.- Assessing pain and unmet need in patients with advanced dementia: the role of the serial trial intervention.- Common Pain Conditions.- Pediatric chronic pain.- Pain in the older person.- Pain after traumatic brain injury.- Pain in the battlefield injured.- Pain, whiplash disorder, and trafficsafety.- Chronic low back pain.- Adult cancer-related pain.- Mechanisms of Pain.- Neuroanatomy of pain and pain pathways.- Acute to chronic pain: transition in the post-surgical patient.- Pain and the placebo/nocebo effect.- Sex differences in pain across the life course.- Stress and pain.- Hope in the context of pain and palliative care.- Temporomandibular disorder and its relationship with fibromyalgia.- Phantom limb pain.- Pharmacogenetics of pain: the future of personalized medicine.- Pain imaging.- Interventions for Pain.- Evidence-based pharmacotherapy of chronic pain.- Chronic pain and opioids.- Nerve blocks, trigger points, and intrathecal therapy for chronic pain.- Neurosurgical interventions for the control of chronic pain conditions.- Rehabilitation treatments for chronic musculoskeletal pain.- Psychosocial, Complementary and Alternative, and Spiritual Approaches for the Control of Symptoms.- Pain, depression, and anxiety in cancer.- Support groups for chronic pain.- CAM in chronic pain and palliative care.- Spiritual dimensions of pain and suffering.- Perspectives on Pain from the Humanities and Social Sciences.- Suffering, hope, and healing.- Narrative and pain: towards an integrative model.- Representations of the body in pain: anthropological approaches.- The art of pain: the patient’s perspective of chronic pain.- Ethical Issues and Future Directions.- Disparities in pain management and palliative care.- The delineation and explication of palliative options of last resort.- Recognition and resolution of ethical barriers to palliative care research.- How health care reform can improve access to quality pain and palliative care services.