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The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing and the science of suffering / Melanie Thernstrom.
Arguing that the American medical industry adheres to outdated pain-management practices that fail to bring effective relief to millions of patients, a history of pain management describes some approaches of past cultures while outlining available treatments.
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- ISBN: 0865476810
- ISBN: 9780865476813 (hc.) :
- Physical Description: xii, 364 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references 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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