Opioids and pain relief : a historical perspective /

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Imprint:Seattle : IASP Press, c2003.
Description:x, 222 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Progress in pain research and management ; v. 25
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5057767
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Other authors / contributors:Meldrum, Marcia.
ISBN:0931092477 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Opiophobia and Opiophilia / John D. Loeser
  • 2. To Market, to Market: The Theory and Practice of Opiates in the Middle Ages / Walton O. Schalick III
  • 3. "The Grandest Badge of His Art": Three Victorian Doctors, Pain Relief, and the Art of Medicine / Martha Stoddard Holmes
  • 4. Take as Directed: The Dilemmas of Regulating Addictive Analgesics and Other Psychoactive Drugs / Caroline J. Acker
  • 5. Analgesic Research at the National Institutes of Health: State of the Art 1930s to the Present / Kenner C. Rice
  • 6. The Rise and Demise of the Brompton Cocktail / David Clark
  • 7. The Dawn of Endorphins / Huda Akil
  • 8. Taking the Myths out of the Magic: Establishing the Use of Opioids in the Management of Cancer Pain / Christina Faull and Alexander Nicholson
  • 9. The Opiate Receptor: Scientific Treasure Trove / Marcia L. Meldrum
  • 10. History of the Development of Pain Management with Spinal Opioid and Non-Opioid Drugs / Michael J. Cousins
  • 11. The World Health Organization Cancer Pain Relief Program / Mark Swerdlow
  • 12. The State Cancer Pain Initiative Movement in the United States: Successes and Challenges / June L. Dahl
  • 13. Opioids, Cancer Pain, Quality of Life, and Quality of Death: Patient Narratives and a Clinician's Comments / Nessa Coyle
  • 14. The Property of Euphoria: Research and the Cancer Patient / Marcia L. Meldrum.