The War on Pain
by Scott Fishman, Lisa Berger (Contributor)

"The management of pain has entered a new era, as Dr. Scott Fishman's book shows. The War on Pain could be a breakthrough for anyone who suffers. Bridging body and mind, this book exemplifies the best of integrative medicine."

Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words

Handbook for Mortals : Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
by Joanne Lynn (Editor), Joan Harrold Center to Improve Care of the dying, Forward by Rosalynn Carter

Moving and informative guidebook through the end of life--
Drs. Lynn and Harrold have created an extraordinary volume: it gives very specific useable advice about options at the end of your or your loved one's life, yet is filled with remarkable poetry, photos, and anecdotes to have an emotionally positive impact on readers struggling with these issues. It is not a book to buy only when the end is near; it is something people should look at because it so directly handles an issue we think about most of our lives...If these doctors can articulate their views half as well in person, they should be on every talkshow on TV. Oprah might want to pick this as her first non-fiction book club selection.

Reviewer: A reader from Washington,D.C.      February 28, 1999

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The Culture of Pain  (Hardcover available)
by David B. Morris

A splendidly rich set of reflections on living with pain.
This is an extraordinary book, serious and varied and passionate; I recommend it to anyone who has encountered pain, and would be happy if all doctors had to read it in medical school. It argues that modern society no longer has any effective ways of coping with suffering - especially chronic pain -, of finding meaning in it, and explores some of the ways people in the past learned to live with - and learn from - pain, pain understood not as an enemy attack on human lives which ought to be pain-free, but as a part of life which must be lived with and which can be meaningful in itself, not just a deprivation of meaning.

Reviewer: A reader from Princeton, NJ      June 17, 1998