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An innovative study of the nature, treatment, and meaning of pain explores modern medicine's changing attitude toward pain and what it means, chronicling the lives of patients who live with chronic pain, the work of pioneering pain researchers, and the professional experiences of doctors, nurses, scientists, and others. 20,000 first printing.
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MARNI JACKSON is the author of The Mother Zone. She lives in Toronto.
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ne experiences it, yet we have trouble talking about it and science has only recently begun to understand how it works. Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign is a groundbreaking inquiry into the nature, treatment, and definition of modern pain.
In the United States, there has been a recent campaign to treat pain as the fifth vital sign. Just as temperature, respiration, pulse, and blood pressure, the four traditional vital signs, must be charted, hospitals are now obliged to assess pain in their patients, too. If this indeed happens, it will be nothing less than groundbreaking―making pain far more visible.
But how has it come about that we spend $24 billion a year in North America on Tylenol, Advil, and the rest, and yet chronic pain is on the rise? Why is it that medicine can master intrauterine surgery but it can’t help people with bad backs or migraines? Pain is the number one reason why people go to the doctor’s office, and the number one reason they c
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- PublisherCrown Pub
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0609603752
- ISBN 13 9780609603758
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages366
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