"Descartes specificity theory of pain" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 31 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Pain During Sex

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Pain During Sex... | Is there Pain during sex? For experimentally delivered somatic stimuli‚ females have lower thresholds‚ greater ability to discriminate‚ higher pain ratings‚ and less tolerance of noxious stimuli than males. These differences‚ however‚ are small‚ exist only for certain forms of stimulation and are affected by many situational variables such as presence of disease‚ experimental setting‚ and even nutritive status.For endogenous Pain during sex‚ women report more multiple pains

    Premium Uterus Human sexuality Sex

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Descartes’ Argument for the Existence of God Descartes’ Meditations serve as a faithful yet skeptical support for the existence of God. He uses a method of doubt‚ calling all of knowledge into question‚ to pursue a deep level of God and human’s existence. He creates controversial circular reasoning when he creates rules to define the existence of God through the use of the Truth Principle‚ the causal principle‚ and the belief that God is no deceiver‚ which all support one another. To argue the existence

    Premium Metaphysics Ontology Epistemology

    • 1174 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Pain Case Summary

    • 439 Words
    • 2 Pages

    11/20/15‚ the patient presents for follow up regarding his low back pain. He reports a 70% increase in pain over the past month. He attributes the increased pain to cold weather and lack of sleep. In regards to his low back‚ he describes an aching pain which he rates at a 9/10. He states standing on concrete causes pain into his legs which is alleviated with sitting down. He states the pain causes difficulty sleeping with the pain more severe and with stiffness when he wakes

    Premium Sleep Pain Myocardial infarction

    • 439 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    In Meditation Six‚ Descartes argues the difference between substance of mind and matter. He points to distinct ideas for the inseparable essence of mind and sensation with its mistakenly confusing ideas‚ to a divisible body. This diminishes the human experience to that of maneuvered body haunted by some ineffable entity. The split between mind and body as separate entities lies within Descartes characterization of material and immaterial substances. The mind is an immaterial substance which thinks

    Premium Mind Metaphysics Philosophy of mind

    • 1249 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Pain In The Elderly Essay

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages

    R…Teixeira‚ M.L. (2010): Pain: elderly patients. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2011; 69(2-B): 387-394. The authors reviewed various double blind‚ randomized‚ controlled trials along with their systematic reviews to evaluate different methods of assessing and managing pain in demented and non-demented elderly people. They utilized articles published in Scopus‚ Pubmed and Web of Science from the years 1966 to 2010. In this literature they reviewed the physiology of pain in the elderly and the

    Premium Pain Psychology Ageing

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Natural Pain Reliever

    • 1478 Words
    • 6 Pages

    effectiveness of red chili peppers as a topical natural pain reliever‚ compared to the commercial pain-relieving oils‚ creams and liniments‚ and also to know if it can be a good alternative to the artificial anti-inflammatory drugs. Three (3) different frequencies of applications were done to three (3) sample persons‚ and these are: 3 times a day‚ 4 times a day and 5 times a day‚ all for a duration of one (1) week. A commercially-bought pain reliever (Omega Pain Killer) was used for comparison.

    Premium Red Hot Chili Peppers Chili pepper Capsicum

    • 1478 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Pain vs Pleasure

    • 1341 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Dualism/Behaviorism for Pain and Pleasure People have a difficult time accepting that emotions as well as sensations exist on a continuous basis. Generally one type of emotion must exist and be experiential and the other polar opposite emotion must also exist and be experiential. This means you cannot have pleasure without pain‚ and that you cannot have pain without pleasure. People seem to be under the impression that an eternal pleasurable experience is possible without any reference to pain whatsoever

    Premium Suffering Feeling Animal rights

    • 1341 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    NCP Labor Pain

    • 532 Words
    • 4 Pages

    17 Diagnosis: Pain related to increased uterine contractions and pressure on pelvic structures Assessment Nursing Diagnosis Scientific Analysis Goals/Objectives Interventions Rationale Evaluation Subjective: “Ang sakit ng tiyan ko at ng likod ko‚ humihilab” as verbalized by the patient Objective: BP: 120/70 mmHg PR: 71 bpm RR: 17bpm Temp: 36.6 C Pain scale: 8 Pain related to increased uterine contractions and pressure on pelvic structures as evidenced by reports of pain with a pain scale of 8 (10

    Premium Nursing care plan Uterus Childbirth

    • 532 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Long term pain affects many people in today’s society. Approximately 10-20% of the working adult population reports persistent or recurring pain that limits their ability to work (Shaw et al.‚ 2012‚ p. 694). Pain that last more than three to six months following an injury or after the expected time frame of recovery‚ is seen as a chronic condition (Nilsen & Anderssen‚ 2013‚ p. 124). As a way of coping with this chronic pain‚ they develop many self-management techniques to get back to work and maintain

    Premium Pain Medicine Suffering

    • 2297 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    significantly‚ with the mind not being equivalent to the brain. Descartes is‚ perhaps‚ the philosopher that most people reference when discussing the mind-body problem. For Descartes‚ there are two substances: Mind and Matter. Each substance has a defining attribute. In the case of Mind‚ the defining attribute is Thought. In the case of Matter‚ the defining attribute is spatial Extension. It is important to note that for Descartes‚ substances can have nothing in common‚ otherwise they would not

    Premium Mind Philosophy of mind Consciousness

    • 891 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 50