Pain: The Science of Suffering

Patrick Wall

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Paper, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12007-4
$26.00 / £18.00

July, 2000
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12006-7
$75.50 / £52.00

Preface

1. Private Pain and Public Display

2. The Philosophy of Pain

3. The Body Detects the Brain Reacts

4. The Whole Body

5. A "Normal'' Pain Response

6. Pains with Obvious Causes

7. Pain Without a Cause

8. How Treatments Work

9. The Placebo Response

10. Your Pain

11. Other People's Pain

Epilogue

Index

Related Subjects

• Neuroscience & Psychology

Series

• Maps of the Mind

About the Author

The late Patrick Wall was professor of physiology at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London and a fellow of the Royal Society. His books include Defeating Pain, The Challenge of Pain, Natural Pain Relief, and Textbook of Pain.

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