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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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2010.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The pain chronicles : |b cures, remedies, spells, prayers, myths, misconceptions, brain scans, and the science of suffering / |c Melanie Thernstrom. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a p. ; |c cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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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| 650 | 0 | 0 | |a Chronic diseases |x Psychological aspects |v Personal narratives. |
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