The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering / Melanie Thernstrom.
TITLE:
The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering / Melanie Thernstrom.
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
364 p.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780865476813
