The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering /
Thernstrom, Melanie,1964-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Pain