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An explosion of advances in the area of tactile perception and pain led to the development of this comprehensive, state-of-the-art text on basic research and clinical practice. Equal parts psychology and neuroscience, Pain and Touch covers peripheral cutaneous tactile information processing, sensory mapping, tactile exploratory behavior, neurophysiology of nociception and nociceptors in pain research, clinical scaling methods for psychophysics of pain, and paincontrol, pathology, and therapeutics.

Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- Touch --- Pain --- Psychological aspects.

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Robotics. --- Robot hands. --- Tactile sensors. --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Hands, Robot --- Robots --- Force sensors --- Touch sensors --- Detectors

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Physiotherapy. Alternative treatments --- wetenschappelijk onderzoek --- massage --- Massage therapy. --- Massage. --- Touch --- Massage --- Therapeutic massage --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Therapeutic use

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'Pregnancy and Childbirth' brings together western and eastern approaches, providing a sound amalgamation of theoretical and practical information for bodywork practitioners world-wide. It describes the application of massage and shiatsu from early pregnancy, including work during labour and for the first year postnatally for the mother.

Massage. --- Pregnancy. --- Pregnant women --- Health and hygiene. --- Gestation --- Conception --- Physiology --- Reproduction --- Touch --- Pregnant women Health and hygiene --- Health and hygiene

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Touch may well be one of the least understood or talked about subjects in the helping professions. A discussion on the importance and ethics of positive, caring, and appropriate touch in professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling is long overdue. Touch in the Helping Professions delivers just that, weaving together scholarly evidence, research and clinical practice from a wide range of perspectives encompassing philosophy, theology, psychology, and anthropology to challenge assumptions about the role of touch in the helping professions.  The contributors to the volume focus not only on the overarching roles of gender, age, culture and life experience, but go beyond to encompass canine-assisted therapy, touch deprivation, sacred objects, as well as key ethical considerations. The prevailing lack of dialogue, due to fear of contravening ethical boundaries, has stood in the way of an open and responsible discussion on the use of touch in therapy. Touch in the Helping Professions is a welcome and much needed contribution to the field-a window onto a fundamental need. This book is published in English. - Cet ouvrage offre un ensemble de données probantes et de résultats cliniques à l'appui du toucher dans le développement physique et émotionnel. Il est structuré selon trois axes : la théorie sur le toucher; la pratique du toucher dans un contexte de thérapie, et les questions éthiques. Il aborde la question du rôle du genre, de l'âge, de la culture et de l'expérience de vie, des sujets comme la zoothérapie, la privation sensorielle, des objets sacrés, et des considérations d'ordre éthique. Les approches variées - philosophie, théologie, psychologie, anthropologie - remettent en question les présuppositions, offrent un contexte historico-culturelprofessionnel, et font appel à des données primaires.  Les collaborateurs soutiennent que le toucher sain et non sexuel n'est pas suffisamment enseigné dans le cadre de la formation professionnelle. Cette absence de dialogue - engendrée par la crainte de dépasser des bornes éthiques, fait en sorte qu'une discussion ouverte et responsable sur l'utilisation du toucher dans un cadre thérapeutique ne peut avoir lieu, alors même qu'elle contribuerait aux balises théoriques de notre compréhension de cet enjeu fondamental. Ce livre est publié en anglais.

Touch --- Therapeutic use. --- Healing touch --- Imposition of hands --- Therapeutic touch --- Energy medicine --- Therapeutic use --- Psychological aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Aristotle --- Attachment theory --- Behavioural sciences --- Cognition --- Cognitive science --- Culture --- David hume --- Human activities --- Idea --- Meditations on first philosophy --- Health Care. --- Helping Professions. --- Social Services.