Textbook of Pain - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044304757X ISBN 13: 9780443047572

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 1994

Synopsis

A new edition of the first comprehensive textbook on pain covering basic scientific knowledge, clinical aspects of diseases in which pain predominates, and the management of pain. The third edition has been revised throughout to reflect advances in every aspect of understanding pain. Reviews of second edition "In the library it will be consulted by pathologists, specialists, and general practitionersEIt is an invaluable compilation, written by 111 contributors, Eand is worth the money.British Medical Journal "Ethis is certainly an excellent book for pain-clinic clinicians and for hospice staff. Anaesthetic departments should have a copy, and hospital libraries will find it a useful reference source." British Journal of Hospital Medicine "Ethe best currently available textbook on virtually all aspects of pain, ranging from laboratory and experimental aspects of nociception to clinical pain conditions and their medical, surgical and psychological management. Ean outstanding editorial achievement, and the book in my opinion has no rival. Ethose interested in the field will find it an invaluable work at a very reasonable price." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

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Review

"..the best currently available textbook on virtually all aspects of pain, ranging from laboratory and experimental aspects of nociception to clinical pain conditions and their medical, surgical and psychological management. ..an outstanding editorial achievement, and the book in my opinion has no rival. ..those interested in the field will find it an invaluable work at a very reasonable price." -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

"..this is certainly an excellent book for pain-clinic clinicians and for hospice staff. Anaesthetic departments should have a copy, and hospital libraries will find it a useful reference source." -- british Journal of Hospital Medicine

Reviews of second edition
"In the library it will be consulted by pathologists, specialists, and general practitioners. It is an invaluable compilation, written by 111 contributors, and is worth the money. -- British Medical Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 044304757X
• ISBN 13: 9780443047572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1168
• Editor: Wall Patrick D., Melzack Ronald