Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The pain chronicles

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

502393009

Responsibility statement

Melanie Thernstrom

Sub title

cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering

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

Table Of Contents

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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