The pain chronicles
Subtitle: cures, remedies, spells, prayers, myths, misconceptions, brain scans, and the science of suffering
By: Melanie Thernstrom.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780865476813
Subjects: Pain -- Popular works; Pain -- etiology -- Personal Narratives; Chronic Disease -- psychology -- Personal Narratives; Chronic Disease -- therapy -- Personal Narratives; Pain -- psychology -- Personal Narratives; Pain -- therapy -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Popular works; Personal Narratives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The vale of pain, the veil of pain : pain as metaphor; title: The spell of surgical sleep : pain as history; title: Terrible alchemy : pain as disease; title: Finding a voice : pain as narrative; title: To cure the mind : pain as perception.