{"id":1540,"date":"2018-06-01T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2018-09-01T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T09:44:48","slug":"june-special-issues-pain-and-its-paradoxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2018\/06\/01\/june-special-issues-pain-and-its-paradoxes\/","title":{"rendered":"June Special Issues: Pain and its Paradoxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1552 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-640x857.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce the June Special Issue of BMJ <em>Medical Humanities<\/em> on \u201cPain and its Paradoxes,\u201d guest edited by Daniel Goldberg, PhD, Faculty at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado. This incredibly diverse issue looks carefully at the concept of pain cross-culturally and from a variety of disciplinary lenses. MH maintains a deep interest in the human story behind medicine, and we welcome perspectives on health as told from history, philosophy, literature, anthropology, the social sciences and more. We likewise desire to share these ideas in conversation with our readers and with a broad public. I hope you will join us in celebrating this rich diversity, and will read and engage with the articles for June\u2019s issue. 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