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What are algedonics?

What are algedonics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The scientific study of pleasure and pain responses.
  2. (management) The handling of critical events in ways that bypass the usual chain of reporting in order to respond more urgently.
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Marshall viewed aesthetics as a special branch of introspective psychology dealing with algedonics, the science of pleasure and pain.
The conception of algedonics interests the physician, then, as far as it helps him to attempt to distinguish between a psychic or physical origin for the headache.

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