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The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering / Melanie Thernstrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thernstrom, Melanie, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pain--Popular works.
- Pain.
- Pain--etiology.
- Chronic Disease--psychology.
- Chronic Disease--therapy.
- Pain--psychology.
- Pain Management.
- Medical Subjects:
- Pain--etiology.
- Chronic Disease--psychology.
- Chronic Disease--therapy.
- Pain--psychology.
- Pain Management.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 364 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
- Summary:
- Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines--science, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and art--Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear.
- Contents:
- The vale of pain, the veil of pain : pain as metaphor
- The spell of surgical sleep : pain as history
- Terrible alchemy : pain as disease
- Finding a voice : pain as narrative
- To cure the mind : pain as perception.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780865476813
- 0865476810
- OCLC:
- 502393009
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