The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

by Melanie Thernstrom

Book Overview

Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865476810
• ISBN13: 9780865476813
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"