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The Challenge of Pain

Paperback • 1996 • English • 2. edition

The Challenge of Pain

By Ronald Melzack, Patrick David Wall

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About the book

Pain has many valuable functions. It can be a warning or force us to rest our bodies. Yet most ongoing chronic pain, such as unrelenting backache or headache, has no discernable cause and diminishes countless lives. Over the years a scientific revolution has taken place in chronic pain research and therapy. A major catalyst for this was the introduction of the "gate theory" by Professor Ronald Melzack and Professor Patrick D. Wall, which argued that pain is a unified stream of experience generat...Show more

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ISBN

9780140256703

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

1996

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

The Challenge of Pain

Format

Paperback

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