War on Pain

Name: War on Pain
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ISBN: 9780060930783

ISBN-10: 0060930780

ISBN-13: 9780060930783

Edition: 2000

Authors: Scott Fishman, Lisa Berger

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Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Lisa Berger has written numerous popular nonfiction books, most of which deal with psychiatry, mental illness, and neuroscience.



Foreword



Introduction



The Anatomy of Pain and Suffering: Charting Its Pathways Through Mind and Body



Why Pain Hurts: The Anatomy of Ouch



Disconnecting the Pain Alarm: The Dawn of Anesthesia and How It Revolutionized Pain Medicine



The Mysteries of Chronic Pain: When a Pain in the Back Becomes a Life in Pain



When the Pain Alarm Goes Awry: Traumatized Nerves and Damaged Pathways



Decoding the Neuromatrix: How Pain Changes the Brain



The Mind Fights Back: Placebos, Endorphins, and Other Miracles of Consciousness



Strategies for Healing: The State of the Art in the War on Pain



Normal Nerves, Damaged Tissue: Low Back Pain, Arthritis, Joint Pain, and Other Common Aches



When Nerves Misfire: Diabetic Neuropathy, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Complex Regional Pain



Meeting Headaches Head-on: Tension Headaches, Migraines, and Other Monsters



Therapies That Challenge the Limits of Science: Acupuncture, Trigger Point Injections, Hypnosis, and Behavioral Therapies



Pain at the End of Life: Untangling the Threads of Physical and Psychic Suffering



Toward a World Without Pain: The Promise of the Future


Epilogue: Making Peace with Pain



Major Pain Clinics in the United States



Resources: Web Sites, Associations, Professional Organizations



Glossary of Pain Terms


Acknowledgments


Index