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The Pain Chronicles
- Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated scientific dogmas that prevent proper treatment, to devastating effect.
In The Pain Chronicles, a singular and deeply humane work, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the ages - from ancient Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern brain imaging - to reveal the elusive, mysterious nature of pain itself. Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines - science, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and art - Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear.
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On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within 12 seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong: with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make.
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Disappointing
- By Audiophile on 05-13-07
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The Undead
- Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers - How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
- By: Dick Teresi
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear - and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.
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Eye opening
- By Amy Giglio on 07-01-18
By: Dick Teresi
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Energy Medicine
- The Science and Mystery of Healing
- By: Jill Blakeway
- Narrated by: Jill Blakeway
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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The first comprehensive look at the groundbreaking field of energy medicine and how it can be used to diagnose and treat illness, from one of the world’s foremost practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine.
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Solid science and also inspiring
- By Clausula on 02-18-20
By: Jill Blakeway
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Doing Harm
- By: Maya Dusenbery
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today.
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One of the most important books ever written
- By Dresden on 03-18-18
By: Maya Dusenbery
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Heart
- A History
- By: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ.
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Fascinating Insight
- By Ironcharles on 10-27-18
By: Sandeep Jauhar
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Suspicious Minds
- How Culture Shapes Madness
- By: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Narrated by: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Mr. A. was admitted to Dr. Joel Gold’s inpatient unit at Bellevue Hospital in 2002. He was, he said, being filmed constantly, and his life was being broadcast around the world "like The Truman Show" - the 1998 film depicting a man who is unknowingly living out his life as the star of a popular soap opera. Over the next few years, Gold saw a number of patients suffering from what he and his brother, Dr. Ian Gold, began calling the "Truman Show Delusion," launching them on a quest to understand the nature of this particular phenomenon and the nature of madness itself.
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Intriguing
- By L. K. on 04-18-16
By: Joel Gold, and others
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Counterclockwise
- Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
- By: Ellen J. Langer
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than 30 years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now has a conclusive answer: opening our minds to what's possible, instead of clinging to accepted notions about what's not, can lead to better health at any age.
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Surprisingly disappointing
- By Stephen on 06-23-09
By: Ellen J. Langer
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Crazy Like Us
- The Globalization of the American Psyche
- By: Ethan Watters
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world.
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He is a reporter...
- By Briana on 05-07-18
By: Ethan Watters
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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Missing Sacks
- By Brandy on 12-02-19
By: Oliver Sacks
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Psychic Healing
- Using the Tools of a Medium to Cure Whatever Ails You
- By: Sylvia Browne
- Narrated by: Sylvia Browne
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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Sylvia Browne now gives us marvelous work on self-healing. Largely made up of actual research trance transcripts from her guides, this audiobook set is a must for those who have chronic physical problems but who cannot find relief from conventional medicine. It's not meant to replace this type of treatment, though, but to augment it.
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Highly recommended
- By Robbin on 05-01-12
By: Sylvia Browne
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- Karen
- 09-17-11
This Book Has Changed My Life...
Thank you, Ms. Thernstrom. Your story, and the information you so generously shared has helped me reach a turning point in my battle against chronic pain. Anyone who has experienced living with this disorder can see that you know what you are talking about. I desperately needed this, and have been improving steadily since reading your book. You have my gratitude.
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- Pete
- 04-09-15
Well done.
Started out thinking I wouldn't be able to get through it, but it was very insightful. As a Physical Therapist myself it helped me to have a little better understanding of my patients view of chronic pain. I have already used multiple examples from this book to help with the understanding of pain from a non clinical perspective. The history of pain was long, but interesting. Definately Recommend for clinicians and for patients. Would even be helpful for those who live with people suffering from chronic pain.
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- Charles Olivier de Vezin
- 03-31-15
Some good Information
I personally wasn't too interested in the personal account. Found I didn't relate to it. But, so much great information. Recommended.
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- Mark
- 09-07-10
Great for loved ones of chronic pain sufferers
I read the book because my wife has been in pain for several years. While reading this book cannot put me in her shoes, it did give me a better understanding of what being in constant pain does to a person. Moreover, it gave me a much better understanding of the separation between pain perception and injury. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves someone who has chronic pain.
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- gsmith
- 10-19-10
interesting book but marred by self indulgence
The author is a New York Times reporter who interweaves the history, culture and medicine of pain with her own failed romance (meets married partner-to-be at the same time she develops chronic pain). The result is she lacks any critical distance about her lovelife, which mars an otherwise interesting account of chronic pain. Her history of medicine shows that conceptions of pain have been continuously re-interpreted; good point, but how many times do you want to hear her announce what an insight this is? I would imagine her editor had a long battle with her and lost.beta inappVoteInfo
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- Timothy M Snodgrass
- 05-17-17
objective overview of pain and it's treatment
This book provided an objective and interesting look at the history of and current state of the art in how we look at and perceive pain. The author is able to bring her personal perspective of a life dealing with pain, and still be fairly objective for the most part. All in all, an interesting read.
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- Eks
- 08-29-22
Super interesting
I wish the information was more organized, but this book is still one of the better resources out there that I have found. in particular, the author does a wonderful job of articulating the personal, inter personal, psychological, and the existential experiences and difficulties faced by people with chronic pain. She manages to put into words many things that I cannot, though I am no slouch. Even though no solutions are presented that will help me, it is very useful just to see someone writing of her pain in a way that I can relate to so well. It helps me to not feel insane, to banish self doubt about whether I am misdescribing the magnitude of what I experience, the insidiousness of it. It makes me feel 'seen' as they say, and that is a tremendous thing.
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- Alan M
- 08-23-10
Great book
I am still listening, but I am impressed. I was a little afraid of the book at first because of the nature of the topic, but I am glad I dove in anyway. This book really woke me up to the antiquated attitudes we have about chronic pain. Future generations will be every bit is shocked by how we treat chronic pain patients as we are by past rascism. Think I am being melodramatic or making an inappropriate comparison? Listen for yourself and see if you still feel that way.
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- J. Steven Morse
- 06-23-17
Outstanding!
Do not miss this book if you suffer from, care for, or interact with someone with chronic pain! Perhaps a bit lengthy, it is worth every word--and can easily be consumed in sections. (Although often
hard to pause!) As a longtime healthcare consumer, friend, professional, and fellow human, this book is at the top of my recommended resources for this topic!
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Overall, a good and interesting book
I thought this was a really unique book. It mashes together a broad history of how different cultures and races have perceived and managed pain throughout the centuries. This by itself would have gotten tedious after a while, so the author blends it with her own diaries and experiences with dealing with her own chronic pain. It got to be a little long towards the end, but I feel this book enriched my understanding of pain. Also, it is well narrated.
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