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The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering / Melanie Thernstrom.

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.

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.
Subject:
Chronic diseases > Psychology > Personal narratives.
Chronic diseases > Treatment > Personal narratives.
Pain.
Pain > Popular works.
Pain > Etiology > Personal narratives.
Pain > Psychology > Personal narratives.
Pain > Treatment > Personal narratives.
Genre:
Personal narratives.

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  • 10 of 10 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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