Ouch! : Why Pain Hurts, and Why It Doesn't Have to

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To (Bloomsbury Sigma) [Hardcover] Kerr, Margee and McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez\n\nOuch! Why Pain Hurts, Why It Doesn't Have To by Margee Kerr, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie\n\n Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it? By the number of broken bones or stitches? By the cause - the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? What does a 7 on a pain scale of 1 to 10 really mean? Pain is complicated. But most of the time, the way we treat pain is superficial - we seek out states of perfect painlessness by avoiding it at all costs, or suppressing it, usually with drugs. This has left us hurting all the more. Through in-depth interviews, investigation into the history of pain and original research,Ouch!paints a new picture of pain as a complex and multi-layered phenomenon. Authors Margee Kerr and Linda McRobbie Rodriguez tell the stories of sufferers and survivors, 1