The Ambiguity of "Pain"

In Jane Fernandez-Goldborough (ed.), Making Sense of: Pain. Inter-disciplinary Net (2010)
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I argue that the understanding of "pain" as presented in the official medical definition by the IASP is ambiguous and likely a cluster concept.

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Sascha Benjamin Fink
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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