Vertosick, Frank T.

Why we hurt : the natural history of pain / Frank T. Vertosick, Jr. - New York : Harcourt, 2000. - 292 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Head pains and candy canes -- Slaying the phantom -- "Tic-dolly-row" -- Human affliction -- Woman's war -- Horror -- Stigmata -- Ancient pains -- Megaphone silenced -- Twilight between sleep and death -- Shadowlands of pain -- Agonies of the crab -- To treat the imagination. ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. ch. 5. ch. 6. ch. 7. ch. 8. ch. 9. ch. 10. ch. 11. ch. 12. ch. 13.

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Pain--Popular works.
Pain--History.

RB127 / .V47 2000

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