The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the (Hardcover) by Melanie Thernstrom

from wrmjr66

The Pain Chronicles is part medical reporting, part memoir. The author suffers from chronic pain, and she relates her experiences with suffering and treatment alongside the research and reporting she was able to do as a reporter. The combination is an interesting and readable foray into what it m...

from Stbalbach

Most people with chronic pain are on a long journey to find a cure or even some relief, such as Melanie Thernstrom, a journalist and author, who has had chronic pain for over 10 years. After she was given a magazine article writing assignment about pain, she decided to take it a step further and ...

from sleahey

This combines a first person account tracing the origins of the author's chronic pain with the history and philosophy of pain. It may open readers' eyes about the plight of people with chronic pain, making it all too real. Leaves one with empathy and a sense of the hopelessness some feel with lac...

from michaelbartley

a very interesting study and discussion of pain, the brain, and human consciousness. it's amazing that something as basic as pain we have so real understanding of it.

from gratefulyoga

The story of a woman's journey to discover the cause of her own chronic pain, and a history of pain itself - how it has been explained and treated through history. Sympathetic insight for the healthy and the healers. Comfort and revelation for those suffering from chronic pain themselves.