Ouch!
Ouch! Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience -- you get hurt and it, well, hurts. By the number of broken bones or stitches? But how would you describe it? What does a 7 on a pain scale…
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Ouch!
Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience -- you get hurt and it, well, hurts. By the number of broken bones or stitches? But how would you describe it?
What does a 7 on a pain scale of 1 to 10 even mean?Pain is complicated. The cause -- the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? But most of the time, the way we treat pain is superficial -- we avoid it at all costs, or suppress it, usually with drugs.
That's 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, courageous kids and their equally brave parents, athletes and artists, people who find healing and pleasure in pain and scientists pushing the