The History of Gynecological Treatment of Women’s Pelvic Pain and the Recent Emergence of Pain Sensitization
- 1st Edition - June 17, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: John F. Jarrell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 9 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 9 5 - 3
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The History of Gynecological Treatment of Women’s Pelvic Pain and the Recent Emergence of Pain Sensitization is a historical account on how women have been treated for the problems of pelvic pain. It describes the earliest reports of women suffering from pelvic pain that seem to suggest the presence of something beyond any understanding prior to the late twentieth century. This book is for awareness of the condition and will help readers understand the complex presentations of pelvic pain: the shift from episodic to persistent pain, referred pain, pain from a non-painful stimulus (allodynia), and excessive pain from a painful stimulus (hyperalgesia).
This is a novel reference that provides a detailed chronology of past treatments and how the absence of awareness of pain sensitization led to some disreputable surgical procedures. In addition, it is an historical analysis on the emergence of central pain sensitization as an explanation for the historical challenges of the past to current developments.
- Discusses co-morbidities and possible reversal approaches
- Provides information on what to look for with pelvic pain to give guidance for potential solutions
- Covers early women gynecologists and early developments in surgical practice
Researchers and clinicians in the field, healthcare professionals, patients, students, Historians, women with pelvic pain, authors of women’s studies, feminist writers and scholars of physician-interactions with slaveholders and enslaved women
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Early women gynecologists
- Abstract
- A new specialty
- Important women in gynecology
- References
- Chapter 2 Medical treatments for pelvic pain prior to the Battey operation
- Abstract
- Dysmenorrhea
- Abnormal uterine position
- Vaginismus
- Physical therapy approaches to treating pelvic pain
- References
- Chapter 3 Early developments in surgical practice
- Abstract
- Prevention of sepsis
- Combatting hemorrhage
- Surgical pathology
- Battey's operative management
- References
- Chapter 4 The predictions of James Blundell
- Abstract
- References
- Chapter 5 Major gynecological developments in the 19th century
- Abstract
- Vesico-vaginal fistula
- Robert Battey's experience
- Enslavement
- Extra-uterine pregnancy
- Ovariotomy
- Ephraim McDowell
- Controversy from high mortality
- Importance of ovariotomy
- Clitoridectomy
- References
- Chapter 6 Dr. Robert Battey and the removal of normal ovaries
- Abstract
- Participation in the Civil War
- Professional career
- References
- Chapter 7 Battey's surgery embraced
- Abstract
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- References
- Chapter 8 Critique of the Battey operation
- Abstract
- Criticism of the operation
- Overutilization
- Criticism of operations for mental illness
- The need for conservative surgery
- The theory of anti-NMDAR receptor encephalitis
- Clinical ethics
- Endometriosis
- Current therapeutics
- References
- Chapter 9 The emergence of pelvic pain sensitization
- Abstract
- Physiological theory versus gynecological concept
- Anatomy of pelvic nerves
- Historical documentation of pelvic pain sensitization
- Irritation in the spinal cord
- Historical clinical descriptions suggesting sensitivity
- Operative notes indicating the severity and chronicity of pain
- Brief history of the origins of peripheral and central pain sensitization
- References
- Chapter 10 Clinical detection of pelvic pain sensitization
- Abstract
- Quantitative sensory testing (QST)
- Central sensitivity inventory
- References
- Chapter 11 Pain with and without a lesion
- Abstract
- Two cases of pain without a lesion
- The lesion
- Counselling for surgery
- Reversing sensitization
- Classification: Psychiatric, disease-based, or both
- References
- Chapter 12 Is there an evolutionary explanation for women's pelvic pain?
- Abstract
- References
- Chapter 13 A brief summary of advancements in the treatment of women's pelvic pain since the 19th century
- Abstract
- References
- Chapter 14 Summary and suggestions
- Abstract
- Reference
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 17, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 240
- No. of pages (eBook): 178
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443239946
- eBook ISBN: 9780443239953
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John F. Jarrell
Dr. John Jarrell, Emeritus Professor in the Department of OBGYN at the Cumming School of Medicine, and a visiting researcher of the History of Medicine and Health Care Program. He is an expert who examines the historical development of theories and therapies of chronic pelvic pain. He is the author of ~100 peer reviewed papers on women’s health and disease; editor of two books, one Textbook of Gynecology co-edited with Dr. Larry Copeland and one on Pain from Unrelated Treatments for the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaRead The History of Gynecological Treatment of Women’s Pelvic Pain and the Recent Emergence of Pain Sensitization on ScienceDirect