Why We Hurt The Natural History of Pain

Name: Why We Hurt The Natural History of Pain
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ISBN: 9780156014038

ISBN-10: 0156014033

ISBN-13: 9780156014038

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Frank T. Vertosick, Frank T. Vertosick

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A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author's unique and highly readable study of the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on childbirth, migraines, cancer, and more. Medical science has made brilliant discoveries over the last century but as any cancer patient can attest, it has yet to conquer, or even fully comprehend, pain. Beginning with his own battle against severe migraines, and citing numerous case studies of his patients, in Why We Hurt Dr. Frank Vertosick explains how pain evolved, and by highlighting the critical functions it serves, he helps us to understand its value. Well written, expertly researched, and movingly told, each chapter offers an amalgam of medicine, history,…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/14/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction: The Megaphone of God



Head Pains and Candy Canes



Slaying the Phantom



"Tic-dolly-row"



The Human Affliction



A Woman's War



The Horror



The Stigmata



Ancient Pains



A Megaphone Silenced



A Twilight Between Sleep and Death



The Shadowlands of Pain



The Agonies of the Crab



To Treat the Imagination


Epilogue: Climbing the Mountain


Index