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Pathogenesis of Functional Bowel Disease

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. William J. Snape

    1. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA
      University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Gastroenterology (TGEN)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Historical Perspectives of Functional Bowel Disease

    • Thomas P. Almy
    Pages 1-11

  3. Role of Neural Control in Gastrointestinal Motility and Visceral Pain

    • Emeran A. Mayer, Helen Raybould
    Pages 13-35

  4. Effects of Psychological Factors on Gastrointestinal Function

    • William E. Whitehead
    Pages 37-53

  5. Central Control of Gastrointestinal Transit and Motility by Brain—Gut Peptides

    • Yvette Taché
    Pages 55-78

  6. Effect of Diet on Intestinal Function and Dysfunction

    • Kenneth W. Heaton
    Pages 79-99

  7. Disorders of Intestinal Motility Resulting from Drug Therapy

    • M. A. K. Khalil, W. G. Thompson
    Pages 101-112

  8. Functional Diseases of the Esophagus

    • Joel E. Richter
    Pages 113-142

  9. Functional Causes of Disturbed Gastric Function

    • Andre Dubois
    Pages 143-170

  10. Functional Disorders of the Small Intestine

    • John E. Kellow, Sidney F. Phillips
    Pages 171-198

  11. Mechanisms and Management of Chronic Constipation

    • James C. Reynolds
    Pages 199-225

  12. Irritable Colon Syndrome

    • William J. Snape Jr.
    Pages 227-247

  13. Association between Disturbances in Gastrointestinal Transit and Functional Bowel Disease

    • C. D. Lind, R. W. McCallum
    Pages 249-271

  14. Abdominal Pain and Biliary Tract Dysmotility

    • Walter J. Hogan, Wylie J. Dodds, Joseph E. Geenen
    Pages 273-288

  15. Disorders of the Anal Sphincters

    • N. W. Read, Wei Ming Sun
    Pages 289-313

  16. Functional Bowel Disturbances in Childhood

    • Paul E. Hyman
    Pages 315-333

  17. Surgical Approach to Functional Bowel Disease

    • Sean J. Mulvihill, Haile T. Debas
    Pages 335-355

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 357-368
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About this book

In their second year in medical school, students begin to learn about the differences between "disease" and "illness." In their studies of pathology they learn to understand disease as pertubations of molecular biological events. And we clinicians can show disease to them by our scans, lay it out even on our genetic scrolls, and sometimes even point out the errant nucleotide. Disease satisfies them and us; at Yale, lectures on the gastrointestinal tract run from achalasia to proctitis. There is, alas, little mention of functional bowel disease or of the irritable or spastic colon, for that is not easy to show on hard copy. Functional bowel disease represents "illness," the response of the person to distress, to food, to the environment, and to the existential problems of living. In real life such matters are most important. Richard Cabot first found out at the Massachusetts General Hospital almost a century ago that 50% of the patients attending the outpatient clinic had "functional" complaints. The figure had grown to over 80% when the very same question was reexamined 60 years later.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA

    William J. Snape

  • University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    William J. Snape

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