The worst of evils is clearly a labour of love, the culmination of a lifetime's study of the
subject of the history of medicine, in particular the history of anaesthesia, and as such it …

The medical community over the years had largely ignored pain, but the text concludes on a
note of hope with the birth of multidisciplinary pain medicine. This was due to the insight of …

It is embarrassing to admit that the author of what is by far the best book yet written on the
history of anaesthesia is a chemical pathologist. As the title suggests, it ranges further than …

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Cambridge University Press viewed physical pain as a Bad Thing. Well, duh, you might say …

In 1990 the Wellcome Trust created a History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group and one
of the formats that they have employed to address issues of recent medical history is the …

Pain is one of the more puzzling, and neglected, topics of the history of medicine; there is not
even an index reference under Tain', let alone an article devoted to it, in Roderick McGrew's …

MAN has always suffered pain. The dawn and sunset of human life are pain and mystery.
The biblical sentence," In sorrow shalt thou bring forth thy children," has weighed upon …