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The Pain Chronicles: Cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scan, healing & the science of suffering

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item type
book
author
Melanie Thernstrom
publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
year
2010
 
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Nicely summarized by Dr. Harriet Hall for ScienceBasedMedicine.org: “Melanie Thernstrom has written a superb book based on a historical, philosophical, and scientific review of pain. Herself a victim of chronic pain, she brings a personal perspective to the subject and also includes informative vignettes of doctors and patients she encountered at the many pain clinics she visited in her investigations. She shows that medical treatment of pain is suboptimal because most doctors have not yet incorporated recent scientific discoveries into their thinking, discoveries indicating that chronic pain is a disease in its own right, a state of pathological pain sensitivity.”

~ Paul Ingraham, PainSci Publisher

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https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/chronic-pain-a-disease-in-its-own-right/

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  1. Pain is Weird
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