The History of Gynecological Treatment of Women’s Pelvic Pain and the Recent Emergence of Pain Sensitization
- 1st Edition - June 20, 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
**2025 PROSE Award Finalist in Biomedicine and Neuroscience**The History of Gynecological Treatment of Women’s Pelvic Pain and the Recent Emergence of Pain Sensitization is a… Read more
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**2025 PROSE Award Finalist in Biomedicine and Neuroscience**
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
1. Early Women Gynecologists
2. Medical Treatments for Pelvic Pain Prior To The Battey Operation
3. Early Developments in Surgical Practice
4. The Predictions of James Blundell
5. Major Gynecological Developments in The Nineteenth Century
6. Dr. Robert Battey And the Removal of Normal Ovaries
7. Battey’s Surgery Embraced
8. Critique of the Battey Operation
9. The Emergence of Pelvic Pain Sensitization
10. The Clinical Detection and Implications of Sensitization for Clinicians
11. Clinical Implications of Pelvic Pain Sensitization
12. Is There an Evolutionary Explanation for Pelvic Pain?
13. A Brief Summary of Advancements Since the Nineteenth Century
14. Summary
2. Medical Treatments for Pelvic Pain Prior To The Battey Operation
3. Early Developments in Surgical Practice
4. The Predictions of James Blundell
5. Major Gynecological Developments in The Nineteenth Century
6. Dr. Robert Battey And the Removal of Normal Ovaries
7. Battey’s Surgery Embraced
8. Critique of the Battey Operation
9. The Emergence of Pelvic Pain Sensitization
10. The Clinical Detection and Implications of Sensitization for Clinicians
11. Clinical Implications of Pelvic Pain Sensitization
12. Is There an Evolutionary Explanation for Pelvic Pain?
13. A Brief Summary of Advancements Since the Nineteenth Century
14. Summary
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 20, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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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