Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain

Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain
ISBN-10
0156014033
ISBN-13
9780156014038
Category
Pain
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2001-06
Publisher
Harvest
Author
Frank T. Vertosick

Description

Using stories of patients in pain, a neursurgeon and author of When the Air Hits Your Brain explains how pain evolved and why it functions the way it does, providing a mixture of medicine, history, anthropology and inspiration. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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