Understanding Pain - Exploring the Perception of Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain - Hardcover

Cervero, Fernando

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262018047 ISBN 13: 9780262018043

Verlag: MIT Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In Understanding Pain, Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. You touch something hot and your brain triggers a reflex action that causes you to withdraw your hand, protecting you from injury. That kind of pain, Cervero explains, is actually good for us. But, Cervero tells us, not all pain is good for you. There is another kind of pain that is more like a curse: chronic pain that is not related to injury. Cervero describes current research into the mysteries of chronic pain and efforts to develop more effective treatments. He reminds us that pain is the most common reason for people to seek medical attention, but that it remains a biological enigma. There is no way to measure it objectively, no test that comes back positive for pain. The idea of pain as a test of character or a punishment to be borne is changing; prevention and treatment of pain are increasingly important to researchers, clinicians, and patients. Cerveros account brings us closer to understanding the meaning of pain.

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Fernando Cervero, President of the International Association for the Study of Pain, is Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University, where he is the Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262018047
• ISBN 13: 9780262018043
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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