The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering / Melanie Thernstrom.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0865476810
- ISBN: 9780865476813
- Physical Description: xii, 364 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-348) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 616.047 THE (Text) | 37810434828157 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
