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C. Richard Chapman

C. Richard Chapman

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Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
11499
World Ranking
5065
National Ranking
2270

Overview

C. Richard Chapman is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary domains, notably within the social sciences and medicine. The main fields of study include social sciences with an emphasis on sociology and political science, as well as medicine, covering anesthesiology, pain medicine, cardiology, and surgery.

Their scholarly work has addressed diverse topics such as cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes; pain management and opioid use; anesthesia and pain management; healthcare and environmental waste management; climate change and health impacts; healthcare cost, quality, and practices; and child welfare and adoption.

Chapman's recent publications feature the following:

  • Towards Better Perioperative Pain Management in Mexico: A Study in a Network of Hospitals Using Quality Improvement Methods from PAIN OUT (2021, Journal of Pain Research)
  • An Educational Intervention to Reduce Regulated Medical Waste: The Inpatient Medicine and Outpatient Dermatology Settings (2025, International Journal of Dermatology)
  • Affinity through Vulnerability: The Politics of Positionality in Child Welfare (2023, Medicine Anthropology Theory)
  • Drinking Embodied: Gift, Commodity, and the Construction of Transnational Japanese Identity in Honolulu (2020, Japanese Studies)
  • Supplemental Figure S1 (2021, Zenodo - CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent coauthors in their research include Ana Lilia Garduño-López, Victor Manuel Acosta Nava, Lisette Castro Garcés, Dulce María Rascón-Martínez, and Luis Felipe Cuéllar-Guzmán.

The primary publication venues for Chapman's work are:

  • Journal of Pain Research
  • International Journal of Dermatology
  • Medicine Anthropology Theory
  • Japanese Studies
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Pain measurement: an overview

    C. R. Chapman;K. L. Casey;R. Dubner;K. M. Foley

  • Pain and stress in a systems perspective: reciprocal neural, endocrine, and immune interactions.

    C. Richard Chapman;Robert P. Tuckett;Chan Woo Song

  • Suffering: the contributions of persistent pain.

    C Richard Chapman;Jonathan Gavrin

  • The Transition of Acute Postoperative Pain to Chronic Pain: An Integrative Overview of Research on Mechanisms

    C. Richard Chapman;Charles J. Vierck

  • Pain, depression, and illness behavior in a Pain Clinic population

    I. Pilowsky;C.Richard Chapman;John J. Bonica

  • Psychological interventions for chronic pain: a critical review. I. Relaxation training and biofeedback.

    Judith A. Turner;C.Richard Chapman

  • Psychological interventions for chronic pain: a critical review. II Operant conditioning, hypnosis, and cognitive-behavioral therapy

    Judith A. Turner;C.Richard Chapman

  • Brain evoked potentials are functional correlates of induced pain in man.

    Andrew C.N. Chen;C. Richard Chapman;Stephen W. Harkins

  • Toward validation of pain measurement tools for children: a pilot study

    Donald C. Tyler;Ahn Tu;Joanne Douthit;C.Richard Chapman;C.Richard Chapman

  • Suffering and its Relationship to Pain

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  • Issues in Pain Measurement

    C. Richard Chapman;John D. Loeser

  • Improving individual measurement of postoperative pain: the pain trajectory.

    C. Richard Chapman;Gary W. Donaldson;Jennifer J. Davis;David H. Bradshaw

  • Naloxone fails to reverse pain thresholds elevated by acupuncture: acupuncture analgesia reconsidered.

    C. Richard Chapman;Costantino Benedetti;Yoko H. Colpitts;Rebecca Gerlach

  • Phasic pupil dilation response to noxious stimulation in normal volunteers: relationship to brain evoked potentials and pain report.

    C. Richard Chapman;C. Richard Chapman;Shunichi Oka;David H. Bradshaw;Robert C. Jacobson

  • Opioid pharmacotherapy for chronic non-cancer pain in the United States: a research guideline for developing an evidence-base.

    C. Richard Chapman;David L. Lipschitz;Martin S. Angst;Roger Chou

  • Postoperative Pain Trajectories in Chronic Pain Patients Undergoing Surgery: The Effects of Chronic Opioid Pharmacotherapy on Acute Pain

    C. Richard Chapman;Jennifer Davis;Gary W. Donaldson;Justin Naylor

  • Emotional disclosure through patient narrative may improve pain and well-being: results of a randomized controlled trial in patients with cancer pain.

    M. Soledad Cepeda;C. Richard Chapman;Nelcy Miranda;Ricardo Sanchez

  • Detection and decision factors in pain perception in young and elderly men.

    Stephen W. Harkins;C.Richard Chapman

  • Comparative efficacy of patient-controlled administration of morphine, hydromorphone, or sufentanil for the treatment of oral mucositis pain following bone marrow transplantation.

    Barbara A Coda;Barbara A Coda;Barbara O'Sullivan;Gary Donaldson;Sharol Bohl

  • Analgesia following transcutaneous electrical stimulation and its partial reversal by a narcotic antagonist.

    C.Richard Chapman;Costantino Benedetti

  • Sensory decision theory methods in pain research: A reply to Rollman☆

    C.Richard Chapman

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith A. Turner
Judith A. Turner University of Washington
Charles J. Vierck
Charles J. Vierck University of Florida
Jean E. Sanders
Jean E. Sanders Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Earl Hunt
Earl Hunt University of Washington
Jennifer D. Davis
Jennifer D. Davis Brown University
Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan University of Southampton

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