Bloomsbury Sigma Ouch!: why pain hurts, and why it doesn't have to, hardcover/margee kerr

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Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts.

But how would you describe it? By the number of broken bones or stitches? By the cause - the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? What does a 7 on a pain scale of 1 to 10 really mean? Pain is complicated.

But most of the time, the way we treat pain is superficial - we seek out states of perfect painlessness by avoiding it at all costs, or suppressing it, usually with drugs.

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