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

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

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Product Code:
1281-01
ISBN
978-619-152-390-0
SKU
22.0060
Year
20-03-2014
Translation
From English: Ralitsa Derilova
Pages
408
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.48 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Healthy Body, The Brain's Way of Healing, Fundamentals of Health, Medicine, Biology & Evolution, Brain & Thinking, Philosophical Researches

Melanie Thernstrom

Melanie Thernstrom

Melanie Thernstrom (born 1964) is an author and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine who frequently writes about murders and crime. Thernstrom attended Harvard University, where she graduated with highest honors in English. She received an MFA in creative writing at Cornell and taught creative writing at Cornell, Harvard, and in the MFA program at the University of California, Irvin…

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In The Pain Chronicles, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the ages―from ancient Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern brain imaging―to reveal the elusive, mysterious nature of pain itself. Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines, Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear.

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