Pain: an overview
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John D Loeser; Ronald Melzack
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Article
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1999
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The Lancet
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English
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Until the 1960s, pain was considered an inevitable sensory response to tissue damage. There was little room for the affective dimension of this ubiquitous experience, and none whatsoever for the effects of genetic differences, past experience, anxiety, or expectation. In recent years, great advances