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Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us is aware of when it will come or how much time it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from persistent pain. It really is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research shows that pain produces pathological changes to the mind and spinal-cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated methodical dogmas that prevent proper treatment, to devastating impact. In The Pain Chronicles, a singular and deeply humane work, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the age groups - from traditional Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern brain imaging - to disclose the elusive, incomprehensible nature of pain itself. Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with persistent pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines - technology, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, books, and skill - Thernstrom demonstrates when working with pain were neither as advanced even as consider nor as helpless as we might fear.

Category: Diseases

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Publisher	Tantor Audio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2010-08
Author	Melanie Thernstrom

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