The worst of evils
Subtitle: man's fight against pain : a history
By: by Thomas Dormandy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
Subjects: Pain -- Treatment -- Cross-cultural studies.; Pain -- Treatment -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.; Pain -- history.; Analgesia -- history.; Anesthesia -- history.; Pain -- therapy.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Table of contents: title: A gift of the gods; title: The grape and the poppy; title: Roots, barks, fruit, and leaves; title: Pain denied; title: Pain ignored; title: The heresies; title: Healing and holiness; title: Islam; title: The age of the cathedrals; title: Pain exalted; title: Rebirth, rediscovery, and reform; title: Going to war; title: Foundations; title: Heavenly dreams; title: Animal magnetism; title: Pneumatic medicine; title: Laughing gas; title: The terror of the knife; title: Hospital disease; title: To the threshold; title: A gentleman from the South; title: "This Yankee dodge"; title: In Gower Street; title: And beyond; title: Chloroform; title: The shape of dreams; title: Mr. Anaesthetist; title: Conflicting views; title: The rights of pain; title: Who needs an anaesthetic?; title: The new physiology; title: The new pathology; title: The acute abdomen; title: Old drugs, new drugs; title: The bark of the willow; title: Cocaine; title: High Victorian pain; title: The power of pain control; title: Seminal years; title: The gift of Saint Barbara; title: Tic douloureux; title: Twilight sleep; title: Dolorism; title: Renoir; title: Pills and poisons; title: The surgery of pain; title: The schism; title: Pain mechanisms; title: Pain clinics; title: Hospice.