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008 051129s2006 ctu 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aRB127$b.D67 2006
060 10 $aWL 11.1$bD712w 2006
082 00 $a616/.0472$222
100 1 $aDormandy, Thomas.
245 14 $aThe worst of evils :$bman's fight against pain : a history /$cby Thomas Dormandy.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$cc2006.
263 $a0605
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505 0 $aA gift of the gods -- The grape and the poppy -- Roots, barks, fruit, and leaves -- Pain denied -- Pain ignored -- The heresies -- Healing and holiness -- Islam -- The age of the cathedrals -- Pain exalted -- Rebirth, rediscovery, and reform -- Going to war -- Foundations -- Heavenly dreams -- Animal magnetism -- Pneumatic medicine -- Laughing gas -- The terror of the knife -- Hospital disease -- To the threshold -- A gentleman from the South -- "This Yankee dodge" -- In Gower Street -- And beyond -- Chloroform -- The shape of dreams -- Mr. Anaesthetist -- Conflicting views -- The rights of pain -- Who needs an anaesthetic? -- The new physiology -- The new pathology -- The acute abdomen -- Old drugs, new drugs -- The bark of the willow -- Cocaine -- High Victorian pain -- The power of pain control -- Seminal years -- The gift of Saint Barbara -- Tic douloureux -- Twilight sleep -- Dolorism -- Renoir -- Pills and poisons -- The surgery of pain -- The schism -- Pain mechanisms -- Pain clinics -- Hospice.
650 0 $aPain$xTreatment$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aPain$xTreatment$xHistory$vCross-cultural studies.
650 12 $aPain$xhistory.
650 22 $aAnalgesia$xhistory.
650 22 $aAnesthesia$xhistory.
650 22 $aPain$xtherapy.