How many times have you reached for the explanation that pain hurts when the brain concludes that the body’s tissues need protecting from an external threat? Specialist clinician and pain educator Laura Rathbone wants to challenge the nociception view of pain and invite clinicians to cultivate a philosophy of pain. For more, check out these links: NoiJam blog: https://bit.ly/35RFH02 Philosophers Chatting with Clinicians podcast: https://spoti.fi/3quCL31 The Words Matter Podcast: http://www.wordsmatter-education.com/blog Why pain experience is not a controlled hallucination of the body: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/18770/