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Regulating the Cultural Pain Neuromatrix

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Pain is inherently productive. There is no getting outside of this. It will continue to be at the centre of life as it is at the centre of Being-in-the-world. At the heart of a better regulatory approach to pain are a set of parameters derived from the acknowledgement of the cultural basis for pain through the cultural pain neuromatrix: diffuse, autonomous, identifiable through neurosignatures and the recruitment of machines across different milieu. Whilst the brain neuromatrix operates through a less than cognitive register, the cultural pain neuromatrix requires conscious engagement. Regulation of pain needs to extend beyond the regulation of pharmaceuticals through therapeutic goods bureaucracies. Implicit in this is a codification of pain that goes beyond linear causal pathways and an acknowledgement of the a-signifying processes that automate cultural responses to pain.

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Fitzgerald, J.L. (2020). Regulating the Cultural Pain Neuromatrix. In: Life in Pain. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5640-6_7

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