In The Media
The manga and anime series Loveless features 4 characters, the Zero, with this condition. Notably they were genetically engineered to possess it as their creator believed being unable to feel pain would make them better warriors.
In the third season of the TV series House in the episode "Insensitive" (14th episode), the patient (Hannah Morganthal, played by Mika Boorem) suffers from this condition.
In the third season of the TV series Grey's Anatomy in the episode "Sometimes a Fantasy", Abigail Breslin's character, Megan Clover, is diagnosed with this condition.
In the seventh season of the TV series Criminal Minds in the episode "Painless"(4th episode), the unknown subject of the episode suffers from the condition.
Baby Carson was featured on Discovery Health Channel's Mystery Diagnosis episode "The Boy Who Never Cried", which aired on 21 November 2009. Dr. David Christopher of Valley Children's Clinic, Renton, Washington is his doctor.
In Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl Who Played with Fire, one of the villains, known through most of the book as the "blonde giant", suffers from the disorder.
In the 2010 film Bereavement, 6 year old Martin Bristol, one of the main characters, suffers from CIPA.
In the BBC1 hospital drama Holby City, in the episode entitled "Wolf's Clothing", first broadcast on 15 May 2012, a teenage girl called Kitty is found to have CIPA, which is responsible for her heart condition having been undiagnosed.
In the Show TV drama Sleepers, one of the main characters, Gazanfer Bircan, had CIPA when he was a child. Symptoms of the disease continue when he is 30 years old. Because of CIPA, he harms and injures people around him.
In the book The Rook by Steven James, the character Creighton Malice suffers from this condition.
Read more about this topic: Congenital Insensitivity To Pain With Anhidrosis
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