The pain chronicles cures, remedies, spells, prayers, myths, misconceptions, brain scans, and the science of suffering
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 deal...
| Main Author: | Thernstrom, Melanie, 1964- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: |
p. ; cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780865476813 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0865476810 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: |
Melanie Thernstrom is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and the author of The Dead Girl and Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder . |