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 |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.