The Resource The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering, Melanie Thernstrom
The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering, Melanie Thernstrom
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The item The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering, Melanie Thernstrom represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen).
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- Summary
- Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines--science, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and art--Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xii, 364 pages
- Contents
-
- The vale of pain, the veil of pain : pain as metaphor
- The spell of surgical sleep : pain as history
- Terrible alchemy : pain as disease
- Finding a voice : pain as narrative
- To cure the mind : pain as perception
- Isbn
- 9780865476813
- Label
- The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering
- Title
- The pain chronicles
- Title remainder
- cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering
- Statement of responsibility
- Melanie Thernstrom
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines--science, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and art--Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear
- Cataloging source
- DNLM/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thernstrom, Melanie
- Dewey number
- 616/.0472
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RB127
- LC item number
- .T485 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Pain
- Label
- The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering, Melanie Thernstrom
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The vale of pain, the veil of pain : pain as metaphor -- The spell of surgical sleep : pain as history -- Terrible alchemy : pain as disease -- Finding a voice : pain as narrative -- To cure the mind : pain as perception
- Control code
- 1227273
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xii, 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780865476813
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010002390
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1227273
- (OCoLC)502393009
- Label
- The pain chronicles : cures, myths, mysteries, prayers, diaries, brain scans, healing, and the science of suffering, Melanie Thernstrom
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The vale of pain, the veil of pain : pain as metaphor -- The spell of surgical sleep : pain as history -- Terrible alchemy : pain as disease -- Finding a voice : pain as narrative -- To cure the mind : pain as perception
- Control code
- 1227273
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xii, 364 pages
- Isbn
- 9780865476813
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010002390
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1227273
- (OCoLC)502393009
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