The Painful Truth
The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal
$32.68
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2022
Summary
A medical and philosophical journey through the experience of pain, used as a prism to marvel at biology and psychology and what it means to be human.
What is phantom limb pain? Can words actually hurt? Why do we experience pain, even after we’ve healed?
We’re currently experiencing a Renaissance in pain science. In recent years our understanding of pain has altered so radically it’s fair to say that everything we thought we knew about pain is wrong. As Dr Monty Lyman reveals,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529176506 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529176506 |
| Author: | Monty Lyman |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
A remarkable book that explores the boundaries and the meaning of pain - and how conventional understanding and treatment are failing us.
A remarkable book that explores the boundaries and the meaning of pain - and how conventional understanding and treatment are failing us. * Sunday Times *An accessible and well-written book… [Dr Lyman] takes us into the world of pain: its weirdness, its growing pervasiveness and how it’s been misunderstood for centuries. * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Monty Lyman
Dr. Monty Lyman is a medical doctor, researcher and author who specializes in the relationship between the mind and the immune system. He is an Academic Clinical Fellow at the University of Oxford. His first book, The Remarkable Life of the Skin, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, was one of the Sunday Times Best Books of 2019 and was a Radio 4 Book of the Week. An essay from his second book, The Painful Truth, won the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine’s Pain Medicine Prize.
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