The worst of evils : the fight against pain
With stories and anecdotes, the author describes a chequered progression of breakthroughs, haphazard experiments, ignorant attitudes, and surprising developments in human efforts to control pain. He offers a multicultural history that culminates with a discussion of successes, and failures, in the struggle against pain.
Print Book, English, cop. 2006
Yale University Press, New Haven, cop. 2006
x, 547 p., [16] p. de lám. : il. ; 25 cm
9780300113228, 0300113226
954116614