The pain chronicles cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering

Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration the "Pain chronicles" illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of pain, and confronts with grace and empathy its peculiar traits, harrowing effects, and various antidotes.

Main Author: Thernstrom, Melanie, 1964-
Other Authors: Merlington, Laural. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, p2010.
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Summary: Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration the "Pain chronicles" illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of pain, and confronts with grace and empathy its peculiar traits, harrowing effects, and various antidotes.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Duration: 11:30:00.
Subtitle from container.
Physical Description: 10 sound discs (ca. 11.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781400118540
1400118549
Author Notes: Melanie Thernstrom is the author of the bestselling memoir The Dead Girl and Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder , and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine .
Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks, including works by Margaret Atwood and Alice Hoffman, and is the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks.