The truth about chronic pain
Subtitle: patients and professionals on how to face it, understand it, overcome it
By: Arthur Rosenfeld
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780465071388; 9780465071395
Subjects: Chronic pain; Douleur chronique; Pain; Interviews; Patients; Interview; Entretiens; Chronic Disease
Description: Forty contributors argue that pain is currently undertreated and is the subject of social stigma, appealing to policy makers, doctors, and drug manufacturers to implement effective solutions.
Table of contents: title: Patients in Pain; title: Mary Vargas, J.D.; title: Hertz Nazaire; title: Allyson Gabrey; title: Hal E. Garner Jr.; title: Esther Reiter; title: Penney Cowan; title: Stephanie Staker; title: Susan Shinagawa; title: Matthew Rudes; title: Kenneth Anbender, Ph. D.; title: Deborah Hunter; title: James Hanlon; title: Caregivers on Pain; title: Howard Fields, M.D., Ph. D.; title: Othon Molina, Ph. D.; title: Kathleen M. Foley, M.D.; title: Wendy Lazar, L.M.T.C. Ht.; title: David Seidenwurm, M.D.; title: Gerald Young, M.D.; title: James S. Hicks, M.D.; title: Steven Graff-Radford, D.D.S.; title: Grace Forde, M.D.; title: N. Gregory Hamilton, M.D.; title: Marcia Gill, R.N., M.H.M, C.H.T.P.; title: Ronald Melzack, Ph. D.; title: Thinkers About Pain; title: June Dahl, Ph. D.; title: Marilyn Vos Savant; title: Father Robert Kennedy, D.D., Ph. D.; title: John Sarno, M.D.; title: Joseph J. Fins, M.D.; title: Robert Jarvik, M.D.; title: Madeline Ko-i Bastis, R.N.; title: Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D.; title: Patricia M. Good; title: Peter Muryo Matthiessen, Roshi; title: Pamela Bennett, R.N.; title: Rabbi Rami Shapiro; title: Epilogue: Toward Compassionate Pain Management.