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Welcome to the blog.
Here is where you can find all of our writings about things we've read. This blog is regularly contributed to by members of the Pain Geeks Community. If you have any ideas or pieces that you'd like to share with the community, just reach out. We'd love to hear from you!


When we think about pain, we must also think about dignity.
January 2023 readings Humanities: NPR podcast: Remembering Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey: The mothers of modern gynaecology Reading 1:...

Laura Rathbone
Jan 2, 20233 min read


December Book Club - Antonio Damasio: Feeling & Knowing Making Minds Conscious
by Christine Petrides Welcome to the month of December! This month is book club month and we couldn’t be more excited! As you might...
Christine Petrides
Dec 5, 20223 min read


Truth in a post-truth world
By Laura Rathbone This month we are exploring causation as a construct and causation within healthcare practice. Causation is a tricky...

Laura Rathbone
Dec 1, 20223 min read


Theme announcement: Exploring Causation
This month we are revising the problem of causation on Pain Geeks with another chapter from the Cause Health book, a short article and a...

Laura Rathbone
Nov 22, 20225 min read


What’s on your mind? Reflections on why we need feelings.
What’s on your mind? Reflections on why we need feelings. by Mariam Hamouda Writing my first blog was a real challenge for me. First of...
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Nov 17, 20223 min read


The Placebo effect of the Cider Lolly
By Laura Rathbone Reading: Rossettini, G., Camerone, E.M., Carlino, E., Benedetti, F. and Testa, M., 2020. Context matters: the...

Laura Rathbone
Nov 15, 20223 min read


Patient is the Opposite of Agent
By Laura Rathbone I realise that this may come as a shock, but I am still un-picking my reductionism. Reading this month’s reading has...

Laura Rathbone
Nov 7, 20223 min read


Fly in the Ointment - Using a fly to simulate human touch
by Christine Petrides Humanities Piece: Fly in the Ointment In this short film, Peter Collins, a prisoner in a Canadian correctional...
Christine Petrides
Oct 10, 20222 min read


Pain and Placebo
by Laura Rathbone This month we are exploring the placebo and the placebo effect, I have to be honest, this is one of my favourite areas...

Laura Rathbone
Oct 3, 20222 min read


To Touch or not to Touch?
by Christine Petrides Manual therapy is such a contested and debated topic in this field it can be exhausting at times. To me it seems...
Christine Petrides
Oct 2, 20223 min read


Exploring Pain & Touch October 2022
by Christine Petrides This month on Pain Geeks we are exploring the theme: Pain & Touch. We have two great readings and a humanities...
Christine Petrides
Oct 2, 20223 min read


Never Let me Go: Discussion Reflections
by: Christine Petrides What a fantastic discussion we had this past week all about our 3rd book club book; Never Let me Go by Kazuo...
Christine Petrides
Oct 1, 20223 min read


Book Club: Never Let Me Go
By Laura Rathbone Never Let Me Go is Ishiguro's 6th full novel and was published in 2005. It's set in a dystopian alternate-reality in...

Laura Rathbone
Sep 30, 20222 min read


Making a Case for the Arts in Pain Care Practice
By Lissanthea Taylor Pain Geeks have been reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s stunning book “Never Let Me Go” over the past months. For a group that...

paingeekscommunity
Sep 29, 20225 min read


Never Let Me Go: About Kathy
By Laura Rathbone I'm absolutely fascinated by the character of Kathy. She is written so carefully to capture her humanity and really...

Laura Rathbone
Sep 11, 20223 min read
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