Pain: The Science of Suffering

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

✍ Thernstrom, Melanie 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 219 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Imagine a "terror that surpasses all description," novelist Fanny Burney wrote in 1812 after removal of a breast abscess-- without anesthesia. Then imagine such pain stalking you for years, as it does Thernstrom (Raj: The Making of British India) and 70 mi

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

✍ Thernstrom, Melanie 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 219 KB

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disea

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

✍ Thernstrom, Melanie 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 229 KB

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disea

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

✍ Thernstrom, Melanie 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 229 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Imagine a "terror that surpasses all description," novelist Fanny Burney wrote in 1812 after removal of a breast abscess-- without anesthesia. Then imagine such pain stalking you for years, as it does Thernstrom (Raj: The Making of British India) and 70 mi

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

✍ Melanie Thernstrom 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Farrar Straus Giroux 🌐 en-US ⚖ 225 KB 👁 3 views

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

✍ Thernstrom, Melanie 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 North Point Press 🌐 English ⚖ 224 KB 👁 3 views

In "The Pain Chronicles", a singular and deeply humane work, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the ages - from ancient Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern brain imaging - to reveal the elusive, mysterious nature of pain itself. Interweaving first-person reflections on h