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The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering
Author
Title
The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering / Melanie Thernstrom.
ISBN
9780865476813 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0865476810 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Physical Description
xii, 364 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 21, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Chronic Disease - psychology - Personal Narratives.
Chronic Disease - therapy - Personal Narratives.
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