About 100 million Americans live with some form of chronic pain—more than the combined number who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. But chronic pain has always been a mystery. It often
Argues that we've been thinking about disease all wrong. Through research and dramatic patient stories, this book reveals how chronic physical and emotional pain are linked.
About 100 million Americans live with some form of chronic pain—more than the combined number who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. But chronic pain has always been a mystery. It often
Chronic pain has always been a mystery. For the more than 100 million Americans who suffer from it, their pain often returns at the slightest provocation, even when doctors can’t find anything wrong.
Increasing numbers of people with type 1 diabetes, all of whose lives depend on insulin, as well as type 2 diabetics, have already adopted the insulin pump, which replaces a regimen of insulin shots
The 1990s, appropriately termed "the decade of the brain," witnessed unprecedented advances in our knowledge of psychiatric neuroscience. Yet with every advance, we realized afresh that we were still
