Pain The Science and Culture of Why we Hurt - Second hand condition

Author: Marni Jackson

A GROUNDBREAKING ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE, TREATMENT AND DEFINITION OF HUMAN
PAIN, ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD AND ELUSIVE SUBJECTS TO CHALLENGE
HUMANKIND.

Why is pain so poorly understood? Why do we still distinguish between mental pain and physical pain,
when pain is always an emotional experience? How can it be that science is about to clone a human
being but still can't cure the pain of a bad back? If pain is the reason why most people visit the doctor,
why are most doctors so bad at addressing the problem of suffering?

In the questing and narrative manner of Oliver Sacks, Jackson takes us back into the history of pain
and forward into the possibilities of pain genetics. Jackson brings us stories of both people in pain and
the pain pioneers: eccentrics and artists, wrestlers and writers, psychologists and philosophers, nurses
and doctors.

Above all, Pain makes an elusive subject vivid and readable. We all know what pain is. Now Marni
Jackson has given it a voice.

MARNI JACKSON is the author of The Mother Zone. She lives in Toronto, Canada.