The Pain Chronicles

Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

Melanie Thernstrom (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2010
North Point Press (Verlag)
978-0-86547-681-3 (ISBN)

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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. Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration, the author illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of pain.

In "The Pain Chronicles", a singular and deeply humane work, 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-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. Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration, "The Pain Chronicles" illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of pain - and confronts with extraordinary grace and empathy its peculiar traits, its harrowing effects, and its various antidotes.

Melanie Thernstrom is a contributing writer to "The New York Times Magazine" and the author of "The Dead Girl" and "Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder."

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.9.2010
Verlagsort	Berkeley, California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-86547-681-0 / 0865476810
ISBN-13	978-0-86547-681-3 / 9780865476813
Zustand	Neuware