The Challenge of Pain: A Modern Medical Classic

by Ronald Melzack and Patrick D. Wall

Book Overview

Over the years a scientific revolution has taken place in the field of bain research and therapy. A major catalyst for this change was the introduction in 1965 by Professor Ronald Melzack and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140256709
• ISBN13: 9780140256703
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Useful introduction to pain

I'm a grad student currently doing a thesis which will probably on diabetic pain. I bought the challenge of pain in the hopes that it would be an in depth introduction to the topic of pain(which is one I did not originally know much about). I have found it to be very informative, with multiple citations and diagrams illustrating key principles. As many of the studies cited are from the 70s and 80s, it is also a very useful summary about the history of pain research. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone who is starting out in the field of pain, and probably anyone in the field already who would like to know more about it.

Challenge of pain

This is an extremely informative book. It is well written even for the lay reader.