A nation in pain : healing our nation's biggest health problem /

A nation in pain : healing our nation's biggest health problem /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Foreman, Judy.
Imprint:	Cary, NC : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (466 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Chronic pain -- United States. Chronic pain -- Treatment -- United States. Opioid abuse -- United States -- History. Pain -- Alternative treatment. Pain -- therapy. Chronic Disease -- therapy. Chronic pain. Chronic pain -- Treatment. Opioid abuse. Pain -- Alternative treatment. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014695

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ISBN:	9780199837212 019983721X 9780199837205 0199837201 0199389543 9780199389544
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	In A Nation in Pain, Foreman offers a sweeping, deeply researched account of the chronic pain crisis, from neurobiology to public policy, and presents to practical solutions that are within our grasp today. Drawing on both her personal experience with chronic pain and her background as an award-winning health journalist, she guides us through recent scientific discoveries, including genetic susceptibility to pain; gender disparities in pain conditions and treatments, perhaps linked linked to estrogen; the problem of undertreated pain in children; the emerging role of the immune system in pain; advances in traditional treatments such as surgery and drugs; and fair-minded assessments of the effectiveness of alternative remedies, including marijuana, acupuncture, massage, and chiropractic care. The real magic bullet, Foreman writes, is exercise.--Publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Foreman, Judy. Nation in pain 9780199837205

Table of Contents:

The enormity of the problem
What is pain, anyway?
The genetics of pain
Gender and pain
Children in pain
The mind-body in pain
Opioid wars : part I
Opioid wars : part II
How the immune system cranks up pain
Marijuana : the weed america loves to hate
Beyond opioids : western medicine
Beyond opioids : complementary and alternative medicine
Exercise : the real magic bullet
The way forward.