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Pain
- The Science of the Feeling Brain
- Narrated by: Russell Bentley
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Pain is part of human existence, but we understand very little of the mechanics of it. We damage ourselves, we feel pain, we seek help from a professional or learn to not do that bad thing again. The story of what goes on in our body is not this simple. Even medical practitioners themselves often fail to grasp the complexities of our minds and bodies and how they interact when dealing with pain stimulus. Throughout history we've tried to prevent it and mediate its affects, resulting in the current situation we find ourselves; highly medicated with a booming opiates industry.
Common conception still equates pain with tissue damage, but that is only a very small part of the story. A woman who has just undergone a caesarean reports dramatically less pain and recovers quicker than a patient who has had kidney stones removed in a similarly damaging operation. The soldier who drags themselves to safety after being shot deals with pain in a remarkably different way to someone suffering a similar injury on a street. The truth is that pain is a complex mix of nerve endings, psychological state, social preconceptions and situational awareness.
Pain is the first book to explain the current issues and complexities surrounding the treatment of pain and how society deals with those in pain, to explain how our bodies relate to pain as well as explaining how we've come to our current relationship with pain (and why that is problematic) and what the future holds.
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- Alex Jesperson
- 12-04-2021
Refreshingly Honest
As a mother with an adult daughter who has suffered from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome since she was 15, I have read and witnessed a great deal about the world of someone in pain and the medical worlds reaction to it. This book is a credit to the author, from its readable history of pain medicine and all the way through to its honesty of humanities current response to pain. It is a call to remind us that compassion and choice remain the underpinnings of progress.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-06-2021
good for people suffering with serious chronic
pain... when i bought this book i thought it was going to be a general discussion on pain...e.g. the normal "pains" we suffer in day to day life but actually unless you have a serious problem with medical chronic pain this book is probably not for you. If you do fit the criteria then you would rate this book much more highly.... or unless you are looking to consider becoming a medical pain specialist this book might be suitable for you as a solid introduction to the medical specialty
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