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The 'painless woman' helps us see how anxiety and fear fit in the big picture of pain

  • Written by: Colin Klein, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University
It's very difficult to separate anxiety and fear from the experience of pain linked with actual physical damage. francisco gonzalez / unsplash, CC BY

Imagine a life without pain. No toothache. No period pain. No arthritis.

A woman who feels no pain has been in the news recently, linked to a case study published in the British Journal of...

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