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...

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Main Author: Thernstrom, Melanie, 1964-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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