User reviewsReview: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Esther Cervantes - GoodreadsAn overview of the history of medical and popular thinking about pain, especially chronic pain, that seems comprehensive, well-researched, and thoughtful. The latter benefits from Thernstrom's own ... Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Dan - GoodreadsExcellent insights for anyone with chronic pain and a taste for the philosophical and historical. Essentially a history of the views and attitudes about pain and how it has been treated from the ... Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Susan - GoodreadsMy husband suffers from chronic pain. I had hoped this book would help me understand his experience, but it did not. It helped me understand Melanie Thernstrom's experience, and it proved that pain is ... Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Deena - GoodreadsI began reading this book looking for hope. I was hoping to hear personal stories so I could know I'm not alone in this fight. I wanted to learn about the cutting-edge research being done at leading ... Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Kyle Wendy - GoodreadsWell written and meticulously researched, this was one of the most interesting books I've read in a while. The author is a chronic pain sufferer, which explains her interest. The beginning of the book ... Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Michelle Wegner - GoodreadsWhile this started out to be a promising book about chronic pain, it ended a little disappointing for me. I appreciated Thernstrom's research about how chronic pain has been dealt with in the past ... Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Patricia Joynton - GoodreadsWith so little known about pain, I'm amazed at the number of pages she was able to write. Interesting, the different types of pain (psychogenic, musculoskeletal, neuropathic, inflammatory, acute ... Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - Carol - GoodreadsThis is one of those books I think I SHOULD read because I will learn something important. I am struggling to get through it though and almost ready to give myself permission to put it away undone! Read full review Interesting and informativeUser Review - cusi66 - Overstock.comThis book was as enlightening as it was interesting. If you or someone close to you is living with chronic pain, this is well worth reading. Read full review Review: The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingUser Review - pdxmaven - GoodreadsThink I read a review of this in the paper, and got it from the library. This is one of those situations where an author's own personal life experience then leads them to investigate a topic -- in ... Read full review | User ratings| 5 stars | | | 4 stars | | | 3 stars | | | 2 stars | | | 1 star | |
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