Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.6 x 1.8 cm
Publisher's note:
Long ignored and denied, the patient's pain is now better heard and better taken into account. A belated advance for a concern that is widely shared: pain is the primary reason for consulting a doctor. So often experienced, it is nevertheless elusive and subjective, taking a particular form for each person — from pain as ally, a "warning signal" indicating a dysfunction, to pain as enemy, long established and endured day after day... Modern medicine long neglected this vast and astonishing field that is pain. Today, thanks to advances in the neurosciences, pain is no longer unknown: its pathways and mechanisms are better identified. The new weapons against pain should make it possible to relieve the majority of patients.
This book opts for humour: a serious, often biting humour that lays bare the anguished plea of the suffering patient. Without ever being ironic or moralising, it shows what needs to be seen so that, alongside medical science, the Human can regain its place.
Professors Patrice Queneau, Gérard Ostermann and Pierre Grandmottet are all three specialists in pain. Piem is a humanist cartoonist.
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